Police officers' perceptions of gender-motivated violence in Canada
dc.contributor.advisor | Perry, Barbara | |
dc.contributor.author | Scrivens, Ryan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-28T17:30:46Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-29T17:42:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-28T17:30:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-29T17:42:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-09-01 | |
dc.degree.discipline | Criminology | |
dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (MA) | |
dc.description.abstract | Police officers‟ perceptions of gender-motivated violence against women have been overlooked in hate crime research. In an attempt to fill a gap in the hate crime, violence against women, and policing hate crime literature, I examine how nine police officers understand gender-motivated violence in Canada using vignettes, sentence-competition tasks, and an interview guide. Here, participants are asked about their perceptions of and experience with hate crime and gender-motivated hate crime against women. Results indicate that the majority of participants do not perceive hypothetical instance of violence against women as hate crime, all of which is a product of: victim-perpetrator relationships, ambiguous motives and alternative motives, and definitional constraints with legal terms. Equally, factors and conditions that influence police officers‟ perceptions relate to: the typical victims of hate notion, police routine and experience with hate crime and gender-motivated violence, hate crime legislation, hate crime policies and procedures for police, and hate crime training for police. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10155/198 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.subject | Policing | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Hate crime | en |
dc.title | Police officers' perceptions of gender-motivated violence in Canada | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Criminology | |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (MA) |