Police Accessibility in Sweden: An Analysis of the Spatial Arrangement of Police Services

Stassen, Richard; Ceccato, Vânia

doi:10.1093/police/paz068

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“…Compared to an urban context, the criminal justice system's response to IPV in rural and remote areas has several challenges. For example, primary responders (e.g., police officers) to IPV in rural and remote areas face practical issues such as longer geographical distances, thus limiting accessibility and response time to urgent calls for help (e.g., Stassen & Ceccato, 2019). Furthermore, rural police are generally under-staffed.…”

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Repeated and Systematic Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Areas in Sweden

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Violence against women lacks geographical boundaries, although research demonstrates higher rates of such violence in rural areas compared to urban areas. The repeated and systematic intimate partner violence (IPV) is especially problematic in isolated areas. This study aims to investigate how repeated and systematic IPV, was handled by the criminal justice system in rural areas in Sweden and how risk and victim vulnerability factors were related to recidivism in this longitudinal prospective study. The sample consisted of alleged perpetrators of repeated and systematic IPV who had been either reported, charged, or convicted of repeated and systematic IPV defined according to the Swedish Law Gross Violation of a Woman’s Integrity targeting such violence, in two rural Swedish police districts during 2011–2014 (N = 258). Results demonstrated that 30% of IPV perpetrators were charged with the Gross violation offense and 5% were charged for other IPV-related offenses. The conviction for the Gross violation offense was 11% and 24% for other IPV-related offenses. 56% were not charged or convicted of any IPV-related offenses. Perpetrators convicted of the Gross Violation offense were more likely to receive longer prison sentences than perpetrators convicted of other IPV-related offenses. Victim cooperation in the police investigation increased the likelihood for prosecution with 7.3 times and for a conviction with 6.1 times. In terms of recidivism 24% engaged in IPV towards the same victim and another 27% recidivated into general criminality. Recidivists had higher summary risk ratings and more individual risk factors than non-recidivists, such as general criminality, employment problems and mental health problems, and victim vulnerability factors including personal problems. To reduce re-victimization, risk and vulnerability factors and supporting victims to cooperate in the police investigation should be considered when forming risk management strategies to protect victims of repeated and systematic IPV in such rural areas.

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“…For understandable reasons, the greatest attention is paid to the availability of medical services, e.g., Shah et al, [36], and less frequently the accessibility of schools [37]. Some works focus on specific topics, such as the accessibility of police stations [38].…”

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Accessibility of Services in Rural Areas: Southern Moravia Case Study

Vaishar

Šťastná

2021

Sustainability

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The accessibility of basic services in rural settlements in the South Moravian Region was evaluated; the accessibility by public transport was taken into account because the accessibility by individual car transport does not manifest any problems. The accessibility was calculated for 768 rural settlements, defined as spatially separate places which do not belong to municipalities with extended power. The time distance includes the time of the ride plus 8 min walking distance to and from the stop. The data was taken from the Integrated Transport System of the South Moravian Region, which ensures that each populated place in the region has to be connected by public transport at least six times on working days. The results show that for 99.8% of the inhabitants of the region, central places equipped with a post office, a basic school and a general practitioner’s office are accessible in a shorter time than 30 min. The accessibility of the services depends primarily on the characteristics of the settlement system and the physical conditions of the transport. In lowland areas, the share of settlements with comfortable accessibility is expressively higher than that of the highland and peripheral territories. The possible future improvement consists of the digitization of the services.

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“…Note that the proportion of the population aged 65 and older is significantly higher in rural municipalities (SCB - Statistics Sweden, 2021), which may indicate differences in the barriers to internet use. Therefore, a focus on rural areas is important because: these areas are often taken for granted as free-of-crime places (Yarwood & Gardner, 2000); the physical presence of the police force is not always a guarantee to those living in rural areas (Stassen & Ceccato, 2021); social media can play an important role because of the physical isolation and remoteness of certain areas (Ceccato & Dolmen, 2011); and rural areas offer a number of barriers to the use of social media, such as unequal access to digital infrastructure that exacerbates differences in socio-demographic composition (Park, 2017). For example, in Swedish rural areas, the population composition (e.g., older adults) is less likely to engage with social media (Berner et al, 2015).…”

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“…the physical presence of the police force is not always a guarantee to those living in rural areas (Stassen & Ceccato, 2021);…”

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The Use of Twitter by Police Officers in Urban and Rural Contexts in Sweden

Ceccato

Solymosi

Müller

2021

International Criminal Justice Review

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The aim of this article is to investigate the nature of information sharing via Twitter by police officers. We examine the content of Tweets in urban and rural contexts using a sample of 20 police-related Twitter accounts, comparing official and personal accounts active in Southern Sweden. Exploratory data analysis and in-depth content analysis of a sample of Tweets compose the underlying methodology. We find a distinct pattern of consistency in the content of the information shared via the official police accounts compared to the personal accounts, regardless of if they are from urban or rural areas. However, some urban–rural differences were observed between official and personal accounts regarding public engagement, operationalized as likes and Retweets. The study calls for a discussion of new models of police engagement using social media by a society that is increasingly shaped by the internet.

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Police Accessibility in Sweden: An Analysis of the Spatial Arrangement of Police Services

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Repeated and Systematic Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Areas in Sweden

Repeated and Systematic Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Areas in Sweden

Accessibility of Services in Rural Areas: Southern Moravia Case Study

The Use of Twitter by Police Officers in Urban and Rural Contexts in Sweden

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