'Guys! Stop Doing It!': Young Women's Adoption and Rejection of Safety Advice when Socializing in Bars, Pubs and Clubs

Brooks, Oona

doi:10.1093/bjc/azr011

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“…A recent example includes a poster by Sussex Police which informed women that '[m]any sexual assaults could be prevented' and advised them to '[s]tick together and don't let your friend leave with a stranger or go off on their own' (Sanghani, 2015. See further Brooks, 2011;Campbell, 2005;Gunby et al, 2016).…”

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Too Drunk to Consent? Exploring the Contestations and Disruptions in Male-Focused Sexual Violence Prevention Interventions

Carline

Gunby

Taylor

2017

Social & Legal Studies

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Primary prevention interventions, often in the form of media campaigns, are frequently utilised in order to tackle sexual violence. However, many in the UK have been criticised for perpetuating victim-blaming, due to their focus on the behaviour of women. One notable exception is a Liverpool City Council Campaign, which targeted young men (aged 18-24) in a bid to reduce rates of alcohol-related rape. Drawing upon an assessment involving 41 male university students, this article generates original insights into the development and utilisation of male focused rape prevention interventions. As this analysis shows, the young men's responses to the campaign involved negotiating discourses of sex, consent, rape, sexuality and gender -especially masculinity. While participants frequently drew upon stereotypes and misconceptions, moments of contestation and disruption emerged. We argue that interventions should concentrate upon masculinity and moments of disruption and contestation (possibly through the use of peer group discussions), in order to encourage critical reflections on gender and sexual violence, and to potentially engender more ethical practices.

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Too Drunk to Consent? Exploring the Contestations and Disruptions in Male-Focused Sexual Violence Prevention Interventions

Carline

Gunby

Taylor

2017

Social & Legal Studies

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“…This version of an aggressive performative femininity in public spaces is constructed by the media as a figure of moral opprobrium dubbed by the popular press a 'ladette'. A number of qualitative studies of women's leisure activities have assessed this stereotype and the sorts of transgressive behaviours that characterise the labelling (Brooks 2011, Sheard 2011) as well as exploring what constitutes 'ladette culture' in schools (Jackson 2006). In an interesting study comparing media representations of 'troublesome femininities in the 2000s with transgressive behaviour among ''modern'' girls in the 1920s', Jackson and Tinkler (2007) demonstrated continuities in the representations of troubling femininity, despite significant changes in the condition of girlhood.…”

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Post-crisis, post-Ford and post-gender? Youth identities in an era of austerity

McDowell

2012

Journal of Youth Studies

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In this review I explore the connections between debates about the transformation of work in a service-dominated economy and those about classed and gendered identities. I suggest they might usefully be connected in analyses of disadvantage and exclusion among working-class young people. Youth involvement in protest and unrest in English cities, as well as rising rates of unemployment, raise questions about the connections between labour market exclusion and young men's and women's construction and performance of acceptable versions of gendered identities. Performative identities are crucial in gaining employment, especially in the forms of low-waged interactive employment open to young people with few skills or little educational capital.

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“…Research highlights that women are aware of their potential for vulnerability when out drinking at night, with such awareness being related, in part, to crime prevention messages (Brooks, 2011(Brooks, , 2014Sheard, 2011). To date, much emphasis on risk reduction in the NTE has focused on safety advice for women (Brooks, 2011;Campbell, 2005; see Home Office, n.d).…”

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“…To date, much emphasis on risk reduction in the NTE has focused on safety advice for women (Brooks, 2011;Campbell, 2005; see Home Office, n.d). Such advice has instructed females not to 'get so drunk you don't know what you're doing'; 'don't go alone to a stranger's house when you're drunk' and 'don't accept a drink from someone you've just met' (a campaign sponsored by the Police Service of Northern Ireland).…”

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Location, libation and leisure: An examination of the use of licensed venues to help challenge sexual violence

Gunby

Carline

Taylor

2017

Crime, Media, Culture

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Anti-rape campaign messages have increasingly targeted men in order to educate them on the law of (sexual) consent. The 18-24 age demographic are at increased risk of experiencing sex offences, with over half of these crimes involving alcohol consumption. The interactions which culminate in alcohol involved rape often commence in night time venues, making intuitive sense for prevention campaigns to be based within licensed establishments. The Night Time Economy, however, comprises venues where people go to drink, have fun, take 'time out' and are characterised and criticised for their promotion of sexism. This article therefore asks: how useful are licensed spaces in promoting rape prevention discourses amongst young men? To this end, the paper analyses 41 students' discussions (across six focus groups) regarding a rape prevention campaign that ran in one English city and that directed its prevention advice at males. In doing so, we argue that environments which incite narratives of loss of control and hypersexuality compromise the ability to counter sexual offending. We also argue that the presence of sexually violent advertising within licenced spaces undermines considerably the call to end gendered violence.

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'Guys! Stop Doing It!': Young Women's Adoption and Rejection of Safety Advice when Socializing in Bars, Pubs and Clubs

Cited by 76 publications

References 28 publications

Too Drunk to Consent? Exploring the Contestations and Disruptions in Male-Focused Sexual Violence Prevention Interventions

Too Drunk to Consent? Exploring the Contestations and Disruptions in Male-Focused Sexual Violence Prevention Interventions

Post-crisis, post-Ford and post-gender? Youth identities in an era of austerity

Location, libation and leisure: An examination of the use of licensed venues to help challenge sexual violence

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