Powerful Perpetrators

ERC/UKRI project led by Dr Natasha Mulvihill, University of Bristol, UK.

Publication List

Stage 1 Outputs
    Project Reports
  • Yapp, E., Birdsall, N., Mulvihill, N., and Richards, H. 2024. Doctors and sexual misconduct: A summary of the literature. Bristol, UK: University of Bristol. View here
  • Richards, H., Yapp, E., Mulvihill, N., and Birdsall, N. 2024. The legal profession and sexual misconduct: A summary of the literature. Bristol, UK: University of Bristol. View here
  • Richards, H., Yapp, E., Mulvihill, N., and Birdsall, N. 2024. The military and sexual misconduct: A summary of the literature. Bristol, UK: University of Bristol. View here
  • Birdsall, N., Mulvihill, N., Richards, H., and Yapp, E. 2024. The police and sexual misconduct: A summary of the literature. Bristol, UK: University of Bristol. View here
  • Mulvihill, N., Richards, H., Yapp, E., and Birdsall, N. 2024. Politicians and sexual misconduct: A summary of the literature. Bristol, UK: University of Bristol. View here
  • Mulvihill, N., Richards, H., Yapp, E., and Birdsall, N. 2024. Religious leaders and sexual misconduct: A summary of the literature. Bristol, UK: University of Bristol. View here
  • Richards, H., Yapp, E., Birdsall, N., and Mulvihill, N., 2024. Professionals (general) and sexual misconduct: A summary of the literature. Bristol, UK: University of Bristol. View here
    • Interactive Tools
    • To view the interactive literature summary report, click here.
    • To view the interactive existing methods report, click here.
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Peer Reviewed Publications

    Journal Articles:

  • Birdsall, N., Mulvihill, N., Yapp, E., and Richards, H.K. 2025. “Sexual corruption: recognising the “abuse of power” in professional sexual misconduct”, Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice. View here

    • Book Chapters:

  • Mulvihill, N., Birdsall, N., Richards, H.K., and Yapp, E. In preparation. Coercive authority and institutional harm: professionals who perpetrate sexual violence and abuse. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence, 2nd ed., edited by Nancy Lombard.
Conferences
  • Richards, H.K., Birdsall, N., Yapp, E., Mulvihill, N. 2025. Investigating their own: A comparison of the regulatory and administrative responses to sexual misconduct in UK police forces and the military. International Studies Association Conference 2025, 2 March, Chicago, USA.
  • Yapp, E., Birdsall, N., Richards, H.K., Mulvihill, N. 2024. Introducing the “Powerful Perpetrators” project: Regulating sexual misconduct amongst trusted professionals. Professional Standards Authority Research Conference, 17 October, London, UK.
  • Yapp, E., Richards, H.K., Birdsall, N., Mulvihill, N. 2024. Beyond “bad apples”: The nature and extent of sexual misconduct in medicine. Medical Sociology Conference 2024, 13 September, Warwick, UK.
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