The Language of ‘Misogyny Hate Crime’: Politics, Policy and Policing

Mullany, Louise; Trickett, Loretta

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-41668-3_13

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“…Despite this, the Nottingham Police initiative has received public support as evidenced through the findings of a survey commissioned in 2018 by the Police and Crime Commissioner and the Women's Research Centre. The survey also demonstrated support in the community for more public education around misogyny being characterised as a hate crime (Mullany and Trickett, 2018). Through education, positive change around 'knowledge, attitudes and beliefs' can be implemented (Williams et al, 2021).…”

Section: Strategies Hypothesised For Misogyny and Sexismmentioning

confidence: 86%

Sexism and misogyny as traits of police culture: Problems, red flags and solutions

Turner

2024

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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The aim of this article is to utilise pre-existing literature to explore the problems of misogyny and sexism currently found to be operating within the police service, and to provide recommendations around reform. This article analyses problems associated with sexism and misogyny at a time of media scrutiny following the Baroness Casey Review of the Metropolitan Police culture, which identifies these concepts as an institutional problem that can impact upon female police officers and women in general. The article begins by highlighting the importance of understanding the differences between sexism and misogyny and then reviews potential strategies towards police reform. These changes include a review of policy and law, use of education, leadership changes, reform to the Police Complaints and Discipline system, male peer support and more-effective whistleblowing processes. The article concludes by establishing that all strategies are worthy of consideration to reform a negative police culture. It also acknowledges that failures to respond to the challenges of dealing with misogyny and sexism effectively, will result in the strengthening of a police culture that continues to damage the police’s reputation and public trust and which will consequently affect all who are victim and witness to this behaviour.

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Section: Strategies Hypothesised For Misogyny and Sexismmentioning

confidence: 86%

Sexism and misogyny as traits of police culture: Problems, red flags and solutions

Turner

2024

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…Individual forces had for example previously classified hate crimes against sex workers and alternative sub-cultures in response to local events and to generate specific data to inform priorities, but without the mentioned sentencing uplift. Following research on women's experiences of street harassment and the evaluation of a local pilot of recording MaHC, Nottinghamshire Police began in 2016 to classify as hate crime a range of behaviours, including whistling, leering, groping, sexual assault, being followed home, taking unwanted photographs, upskirting, sexually explicit language, threatening/aggressive/intimidating behaviour, indecent exposure, unwanted sexual advances and online abuse (Mullany and Trickett, 2018).…”

Section: Implementing Mahc In England and Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendering Discretion: Why Street-Level Bureaucracy Needs a Gendered Lens

Durose

Lowndes

2023

Political Studies

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Street-level bureaucrats shape policy through using discretion in their interactions with citizens and service users in delivering public services. Discretion allows street-level bureaucrats to bridge between public policy and the complex, individual, human situations they encounter. Drawing on insights from feminist institutionalism, this article establishes gender as a relevant analytical category in understanding discretion. We set out three analytical propositions: street-level bureaucrats work in gendered institutional contexts that shape their discretion; street-level bureaucrats are gendered actors, whose discretion is shaped by their individual gendered dispositions; and street-level bureaucrats’ discretion has gendered effects. We investigate these propositions through a case study of the early implementation of the classification of misogyny as a hate crime among police forces in England and Wales. In addressing this analytical intersection between street-level bureaucracy and feminist institutionalism, we bring a gendered perspective to street-level bureaucracy, and a focus on how rules are interpreted to feminist institutionalism, forging new ground in public administration.

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“…Street harassment has been acknowledged with respect to misogyny in the United Kingdom. A survey conducted in Nottinghamshire about the implementation of the 2016 'Misogyny Hate Crime' policy, found that 93.7% of the survey participants had either witnessed or had first-hand experience, of street harassment (Mullany & Trickett, 2020). It was also discovered that when respondents were communicating with police, they were satisfied when the police "had good knowledge of the policy, made them feel valued and took them seriously, evidenced through good rapport management, including empathy and supportive listenership" (Mullany & Trickett, 2020, p. 268).…”

Section: Females At Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

I don't know you, Random Man: Adolescent female perceptions of procedural justice during police contact

Lennox¹

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<p>This study explored female adolescent perceptions of procedural justice during police interactions in New Zealand. Available research on youth and procedural justice, is male-focused or treats youth as homogenous. No recent research has investigated female interactions with police, although police are the gatekeepers to the criminal justice system, and the rate of female incarceration is increasing rapidly in New Zealand. This qualitative study is feminist-informed and employed semi-structured interviews of 11 female adolescents who had experienced police contact within the previous five years. Transcripts of these interviews were subjected to thematic analysis and three key themes were identified: invasion of space, communication of authority, and presentation of risk. The results indicate that gender dynamics do influence female adolescents in their navigation of these three themes, and thereby, impact their perceptions of procedural justice during police encounters.</p>

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The Language of ‘Misogyny Hate Crime’: Politics, Policy and Policing

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Sexism and misogyny as traits of police culture: Problems, red flags and solutions

Sexism and misogyny as traits of police culture: Problems, red flags and solutions

Gendering Discretion: Why Street-Level Bureaucracy Needs a Gendered Lens

I don't know you, Random Man: Adolescent female perceptions of procedural justice during police contact

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