Journal Articles

• Barbin, A., Manning, M., Davies, K. and Horvath, M.A.H., 2025. Rethinking success in policing: a moderation model of specialism’s interaction with self-reported competence, specialism endorsement, wellbeing and organisational support. Current Psychology, 44 (20), 16565-16581.
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• Crivatu, I.M., Barbin, A., Horvath, M.A.H., Davies, K. and Spence, R., 2025. Types of Domestic Violence and Abuse-Flagged Offenses and Their Associations: A Quantitative Exploration Using English Police Data. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 52 (9), 1403-1422.
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• Barbin, A., Manning, M., Davies, K. and Horvath, M.A.H., 2025. Police specialism in England and Wales: an exploratory review. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 11 (2), 150-165.
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• Barbin, A., Gekoski, A., Davies, K. and Horvath, M.A.H., 2025. Policing rape and serious sexual offences: officers’ insights on police specialism. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 15 (1), 54-70.
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• Barbin, A., Crivatu, I., Davies, K., Horvath, M.A.H. and Spence, R., 2025. ‘Understanding Domestic Violence and Abuse: Victim, Suspect and Crime Predictors of Police Outcomes’. Journal of Family Violence.
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• Ferreira, J., Horvath, M.A.H. and Davies, K., 2025. “Shifting goalposts” and “fishing expeditions”: police case preparation and the application of the full code test in cases of RASSO. Journal of Criminal Psychology.
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• Horvath, M.A.H. and Davies, K., 2025. Improving rape and serious sex offences investigations. Journal of Criminal Psychology.
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• Walley, P., Davies, K., Friskney, R., Khan, A. and Horvath, M.A.H., 2025. Understanding police capacity issues in sex offence investigations, and considering a team approach as a solution to (some of) these challenges. Journal of Criminal Psychology.
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• Spence, R., Crivatu, I.M., Davies, K. and Horvath, M.A.H., 2025. A comparison of “only-once” and repeat male and female sex offence suspects. Journal of Sexual Aggression.
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• Iliuta, A., Sayer, H., Horvath, M.A.H., Davies, K. and Khan, A., 2025. The timely and effective completion of initial investigative actions in rape investigations. JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY.
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• Woodhams, J., Keetch, B., Shah, P., Brett, M., Davies, K., Flowe, H., Duran, F., Galambos, S. and Gregory, P., 2024. The Incidence and Characteristics of U.K. Stranger Sex Offenses Fluctuated With Public Health Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Psychology of Violence, 15 (4), 502-514.
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• Allen, K., Khan, A., Horvath, M.A.H. and Davies, K., 2024. “Unless you’ve got a conviction, there’s not much you can do”: Rethinking long-term disruption and exit strategy in RASSO investigationss. Journal of Criminal Psychology.
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• Gekoski, A., Massey, K., Allen, K., Ferreira, J., Dalton, C.T., Horvath, M. and Davies, K., 2024. ‘A lot of the time it’s dealing with victims who don’t want to know, it’s all made up, or they’ve got mental health’: Rape myths in a large English police force. International Review of Victimology, 30 (1), 3-24.
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• Rockowitz, S., Wagner, K., Cooper, R., Stevens, L., Davies, K., Woodhams, J., Kanja, W. and Flowe, H.D., 2024. A Systematic Review of Criminal Justice Initiatives to Strengthen the Criminal Investigation and Prosecution of Sexual Violence in East Africa. Trauma Violence and Abuse, 25 (1), 813-827.
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• Gekoski, A., Davies, K. and Allen, K., 2023. Barriers and challenges to police and Crown Prosecution Service joint working on rape and serious sexual offence cases: A police perspective. Policing Oxford, 17.
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• Davies, K., Spence, R., Cummings, E., Cross, M. and Horvath, M.A.H., 2022. Understanding sexual violence and factors related to police outcomes. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.
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• Pang, Y., Davies, K. and Liu, Y., 2022. Changes in Certitude, Adherence, and Attitude: Immediate Effects of Rape Myth Intervention on Jurors in a Mock Trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (16).
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• Dalton, C.T., Barrett, S., Horvath, M.A.H. and Davies, K., 2022. A systematic literature review of specialist policing of rape and serious sexual offences. International Criminology.
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• Ji, Z., Rockowitz, S., Flowe, H.D., Stevens, L.M., Kanja, W. and Davies, K., 2022. Reflections on Increasing the Value of Data on Sexual Violence Incidents against Children to Better Prevent and Respond to Sexual Offending in Kenya. Societies, 12 (3).
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• Spence, R., Horvath, M.A.H., Dalton, C.T. and Davies, K., 2022. Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on reporting of rape, serious sexual offences, and domestic abuse in one English police force. Journal of Gender Based Violence, 6 (2), 242-260.
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• Stevens, L.M., Reid, E., Kanja, W., Rockowitz, S., Davies, K., Dosanjh, S., Findel, B. and Flowe, H.D., 2022. The Kenyan Survivors of Sexual Violence Network: Preserving Memory Evidence with a Bespoke Mobile Application to Increase Access to Vital Services and Justice. Societies, 12 (1).
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• Woodhams, J., Davies, K., Galambos, S. and Webb, M., 2021. A Descriptive Analysis of the Temporal and Geographical Proximities Seen Within UK Series of Sex Offenses. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 36 (4), 706-715.
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• Davies, K., Imre, H. and Woodhams, J., 2021. The utility of the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System for conducting comparative case analysis. Journal of Criminological Research Policy and Practice, 7 (1), 77-90.
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• May, H., Kloess, J.A., Davies, K. and Hamilton-Giachritsis, C.E., 2021. Young People’s Experiences of Attending a Theater-in-Education Program on Child Sexual Exploitation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11.
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• Davies, K. and Woodhams, J., 2019. The practice of crime linkage: A review of the literature. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 16 (3), 169-200.
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• Davies, K., Tonkin, M., Bull, R. and Bond, J.W., 2012. The Course of Case Linkage Never Did Run Smooth: A New Investigation to Tackle the Behavioural Changes in Serial Car Theft. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 9 (3), 274-295.
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Chapters

• Burrell, A., Slater, C. and Davies, K., 2024. Profiling. Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice Volume 1 4. V4-V4-222.
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• Woodhams, J. and Davies, K., 2021. The use of crime linkage in sexual offense cases. Criminal Investigations of Sexual Offenses Techniques and Challenges. 49-63.
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• Davies, K., Woodhams, J. and Tonkin, M., 2019. Reviewing the use of crime linkage evidence within a legal context. Routledge International Handbook of Legal and Investigative Psychology. 198-211.
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Conferences

• Law, M., Sautory, T., Mitchener, L., Davies, K., Tonkin, M., Woodhams, J. and Alrajeh, D., 2022. Learning to Rank the Distinctiveness of Behaviour in Serial Offending. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 13416 LNAI, 484-497.
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Grants

• Assessing high harm suspects in Dorset Police (Dorset Police, 15 Jan 2025). Awarded
• Understanding sex offence victims, risk, and police investigations using novel datasets (UKRI Secondary Data Analysis Initiative, 01 Nov 2024). Awarded
• An evaluation of the new High Harm Unit in Dorset Police: Understanding the identification, assessment, and management of potentially harmful subjects (Home Office Science, Technology, Analysis, and Research fund, 01 Apr 2024). Awarded
• Evaluation and implementation of decision-support tool for identification and management of risk in non-convicted RASSO perpetrators (Home Office Science, Technology, Analysis, and Research fund, 01 Apr 2024). Awarded
• Targeting repeat sexual offending suspects using behavioural analysis (Home Office Science, Technology, Analysis, and Research fund, 01 Apr 2023). Awarded
• Identifying and managing risk in non-convicted sex offence perpetrators (Home Office Science, Technology, Analysis, and Research fund, 01 Apr 2023). Awarded
• The prioritisation of potentially harmful suspects and the estimation of future risk (Home Office Science, Technology, Analysis, and Research fund, 01 Apr 2023). Awarded
• Suspect focused investigations and targeting repeat suspects (The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, 05 Sep 2022). Awarded
• Evaluating RASSO investigations in five forces across the UK (The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, 01 Sep 2022). Awarded
• Digital forensics in rape and serious sexual assault offences: Evaluating new interventions to improve RASSO outcomes (The Dawes Trust, 01 Jul 2022). Awarded
• Evaluating how rolling out novel technologies can improve rape and serious sexual offence (RASSO) investigations and outcomes, with learning shared with all forces (Home Office Science, Technology, Analysis, and Research fund, 01 Sep 2021). Awarded
• Pathfinder to develop better understanding and new opportunities to improve policing response to rape (Avon and Somerset Police, 22 Jan 2021). Awarded
• Investigating the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on stranger sex offender behaviour and victim vulnerability (UKRI Covid-19 funding call, 05 Nov 2020). Awarded
• An evaluation of the ViCLAS unit and crime linkage in Switzerland (Swiss Police, 01 Jul 2019). Awarded
• An evaluation of national policing initiatives (College of Policing, 15 Feb 2019). Awarded