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This chapter examines the secrets to revealing sex crimes and victimisations. It does so in the context of broader social-structural and cultural silencing factors in the United Kingdom in the twentieth and twenty- first centuries. Drawing on gendered theorising, the chapter illustrates how a predatory sexual paedophile was able to hide in plain sight and not be exposed for decades.
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Davies, P. (2014). Gender First: The Secret to Revealing Sexual Crimes and Victimisations. In: Davies, P., Francis, P., Wyatt, T. (eds) Invisible Crimes and Social Harms. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347824_2
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