Gender First: The Secret to Revealing Sexual Crimes and Victimisations

Abstract

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.