Police Narratives of Feminicide Cases in Brazil

Pamplona, Roberta Silveira; Flores, Jerry

doi:10.1080/19428200.2019.1747895

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“…For generations, Indigenous women have been erroneously depicted as promiscuous and degenerates (Dean 2015;O'Reilly and Fleming 2016). Such gendered and racialized pathologizing tropes adversely affect police behavior as they hamper state response and reduce the willingness of the police to address violence (O'Reilly and Fleming 2016; Pamplona and Flores 2019). Pathologizing narratives furthermore result in the criminalization of Indigenous women (Patrick 2016) and the maintenance of violence against them.…”

Section: Storylines: Justifying Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Building the Settler Colonial Order: Police (In)Actions in Response to Violence Against Indigenous Women in “Canada”

Flores¹,

Alfaro

2023

Gender & Society

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In this article we focus on missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in “Canada.” We theorize narratives that police employ to respond to this violence. Using a broad data sample of testimonies across “Canada,” this article contributes to understanding how police (in)actions make sense of, justify, and dismiss violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We draw from 48 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Indigenous peoples in Toronto and other “Canadian” cities and 219 testimonies from the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG). The analysis finds that police repeatedly use similar frames (topics), styles (linguistic and behavioral strategies), and storylines (narratives) to respond to violence against Indigenous peoples. While framing Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people as deviants helps police make sense of and explain violence against them, the use of verbal and behavioral strategies (indifference, callousness, and lack of information) and storylines (“they were [insert pathologizing frame]” and “there’s nothing we can do”) allows police to dismiss and justify acts of violence. We argue that the frames, styles, and storylines employed by police perpetuate violence. Police (in)actions are fundamental to achieving settler colonialism’s ideological and material dimensions.

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Section: Storylines: Justifying Violencementioning

confidence: 99%