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6.13 - Sexual harassment

from Part VI - Special topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Jennifer M. Brown
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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Forensic determination of sexual harassment entails a contextual understanding of the scope of sexual harassment and a determination of whether events have occurred that fall within a particular legal or institution’s definition of sexual harassment. Hence, a proper determination of whether or not sexual harassment took place is crucial. In all forensic determinations of culpability, the investigator hopes to achieve a result from the investigation that accurately portrays reality. However, all forensic determinations have an error rate associated with them. The error rate has two parts: false positives and false negatives. Reducing false positive and false negative errors in sexual harassment investigations centres on conducting a sound sexual harassment investigation. A sound sexual harassment investigation will collect all relevant evidence, synthesize all collected evidence, attempt to come to a conclusion based on the evidence, and make appropriate recommendations for repairing damage to individuals and the organization.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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