Criminal Investigations of Sexual Offenses

Part I. Suspect Prioritization and Identification Techniques.- 1. Offender decision-making.- 2. Psychological/offender profiling.- 3. Geographic profiling.- 4. Crime linkage.- Part II. Investigative interviewing.- 5. Suspect interviewing and confession.- 6. Child interviewing.- 7. Witnesses and victims interviewing.- Part III. Operational challenges and issues.- 8. Eyewitness issues.- 9. False confession and deception detection.- 10. False allegations.- 11. Reliability and validity of computerized databases.- 12. Investigative failures.- 13. Investigative decision-making.- Part IV. Investigation of specific types of sex offenses.- 14. Sexual cybercrime.- 15. Sexual homicide.

Nadine Deslauriers-Varin is an Associate Professor of criminology at the School of Social Work and Criminology at Université Laval, QC, Canada. She received her BSc and MSc in Criminology from the University of Montreal (Canada) and she completed her PhD at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She is an affiliated researcher of the International Center of Comparative Criminology (ICCC) - for which she also acts as the head of the ICCC - Université Laval division, a collaborator for the Canadian Society of Evidence-Based Policing (Can-SEBP), and a Regional Champion for the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG). She currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal for Police and Criminal Psychology. Nadine's research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et culture, the Ministry of Public Safety & Solicitor General through the British Columbia's Crime Reduction Research Program, the International Center of Comparative Criminology, and Université Laval. Most of her research projects are carried out in collaboration with police forces and aim at developing better investigative practices (e.g., suspect identification and prioritization for sexual, violent and serial crimes, and police interrogation practices). Her work has been published in top tier peer-reviewed journals in her field and has been the subject of many scientific papers, book chapters,presentations, and special issues in scientific journals. To date, she trained close to 200 investigators about suspect interviewing best practices.