Sex Crime Investigations: The Complete Investigators Handbook

330 Pages·1996·14.815 MB·English

by  F.D. Jordan

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PALADIN PRESS ¢ BOULDER, COLORADO
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Sex Crime Investigations:
The Complete Investigator’s Handbook
by F.D. Jordan
Copyright © 1996 by F.D. Jordan
ISBN 0-87364-874-9
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Introduction
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One
Image of the Sex Crime Investigator
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Two
Selection and Training of Personnel
15
Three
Search Warrants and Crime Scene Investigations
29
Four
Sexual Victimization
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False Allegations
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Six
Munchausen’s Syndrome
105
Seven
Interviewing the Victim
111
Eight
Looking for the Rapist
127
Nine
Investigating Serial Rapes
143
Ten
Identifying the Offender
155
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Investigations of these crimes are also handled by both
men and women. In this text (except where otherwise
specified) masculine pronouns have been used when
referring to the sex offender and the sex crime investiga-
tor. This has been done for convenience only and not
with the intent of excluding anyone because of gender.
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Welcome to the frustrating, sometimes disturbing,
and always challenging world of sex crime investiga-
tions. It is a world not of light and dark, but of endless
shades of gray.
On September 1, 1994, I started my 28th year with
the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department. For the
past 19 years of my law enforcement career I have been
assigned to sex crime investigations. I am often asked
why I’ve stayed in sex crimes so long. It’s a question that
I’m not sure I can answer to anyone’s satisfaction other
than my own. It does seem strange, considering that sex
crime investigations was not my choice originally. I was
drafted into the Sex Crimes Unit from the Robbery Unit
in 1976, when the Sex Crimes Unit was reorganized. I did
try to get out once: In 1986, I transferred to the
Enforcement Unit, a utility undercover operation. I
wasn’t there very long before I was assigned to develop
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an undercover child pornography and child sexual
exploitation investigative operation—there was no
escaping sex crimes. In 1989, I returned to the Sex
Crimes Unit. We all seem to find a niche in life, and for
reasons I can’t explain, sex crime investigations has
become mine.
As the unit training officer I have the responsibility
of training new sex crime investigators. I also conduct
training sessions for other law enforcement agencies.
For those investigators whom I have trained on a one-
to-one basis I’ve tried to go beyond the fundamentals
of sex crime investigations. I’ve tried to teach the reali-
ties as well as the philosophy of sex crime investiga-
tions. Certain realities cannot be taught in classroom
training sessions, but there are other aspects of this
field that I feel have never been adequately addressed
in training sessions or textbooks on the subject. It is
these omissions that inspired the writing of this book.
The importance of sex crime investigations is per-
ceived differently from one law enforcement agency to
another, and the amount of training available to sex
crime investigators can differ widely. The amount of
training made available is not based solely on the size of
the agency, it is also influenced by the attitudes of the
agency’s supervisors and administrators. However, it
makes little difference if you are with a small agency or
part of a sex crimes unit in a large metropolitan city;
many of the problems associated with sex crime investi-
gations are the same.
Sex is the most talked about and controversial sub-
ject in our culture. Placing sexual issues in the arena of
the criminal justice system results in even more contro-
versy. Criminal sexual behavior is foreign to most peo-
ple and beyond their contemplation. The most common
reaction is one of denial. But denial is not limited to the
citizens of a community; it is also found in government
as well as law enforcement.
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Introduction
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The issues that surround sex crimes are highly sensi-
tive. These crimes have a great impact not only on the
victims but also on the victims’ families, their commu-
nities, and the investigators themselves. Crimes of a sex-
ual nature are not, in my opinion, crimes where those
given investigative responsibility can afford to gain
expertise by trial and error.
Despite what others might think or say, sex crime
investigations is one of the most unique and challeng-
ing fields in law enforcement. But there are certain reali-
ties that the sex crime investigator and his agency must
learn to deal with. These realities are what I have tried to
address in this book.
Approaching this subject from the perspective of the
sex crime investigator, I’ve tried to provide an accurate
and complete picture of this special investigative field,
the inherent problems found within it, and the need for
meaningful training. Of equal importance is the need
for law enforcement supervisors and administrators to
develop a better understanding of the demands and
problems faced by sex crime investigators.
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