Police officers' perceptions of gender-motivated violence in Canada

dc.contributor.advisorPerry, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorScrivens, Ryan
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-28T17:30:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-29T17:42:58Z
dc.date.available2011-11-28T17:30:46Z
dc.date.available2022-03-29T17:42:58Z
dc.date.issued2011-09-01
dc.degree.disciplineCriminology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (MA)
dc.description.abstractPolice 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.sponsorshipUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technologyen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10155/198
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectPolicingen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectHate crimeen
dc.titlePolice officers' perceptions of gender-motivated violence in Canadaen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCriminology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)

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