Research project The project explores wellbeing and sustainabiliy in police investigation units working with online child sexual abuse (CSA) investigation. This crime type challenging to investigate as it requires extensive collaboration and integration of technical expertise with expertise in sexual crime against children.
online CSA investigation regularly takes place in teams, and it is mentally taxing to work with for investigators, which highlights the need for sustainable working conditions where detectives can support each other. A promising approach to support teamwork in cross-functional teams is through the concept of team scaffolds. Team scaffolds entail basic role structures aimed to facilitate role coordination and teamwork in temporary settings.
The aim of this project is to explore how cross-functional collaboration can be supported in online CSA investigation. Using a dynamic integrated evaluation model (DIEM), the research group will work with the Swedish police to develop, implement and evaluate the feasibility of a team intervention.
Working closely with the practitioners through co-creation, we will develop new knowledge on how collaboration and cross-functional teamwork can support online CSA investigations. The project contributes with empirically grounded research and evaluation on investigation methods.
