RT Article
T1 Police perceptions of prejudice:: how police awareness training influences the capacity of police to assess prejudiced motivated crime
JF Policing and society
VO 28
IS 6
SP 730
OP 745
A1 Miles-Johnson, Toby
A2 Mazerolle, Lorraine Green
A2 Pickering, Sharon 1972-
A2 Smith, Paul
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1845520483
AB Prejudice motivated crime (PMC) is defined as crimes motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred towards members of particular groups, communities and individuals. To understand how police awareness training facilitates or constrains the capacity of police officers to appropriately classify and respond to PMC, data were collected from a population of Police Recruits (PRs) and Protective Service Officers (PSOs) (N = 1609) to ascertain their perceptions of PMC pre- and post-PMC awareness training. These were used in a logistic regression model to identify factors explaining whether PRs and PSOs would identify a vignette/scenario as a PMC. We found PRs and PSOs were more likely to correctly identify a PMC scenario than a control scenario, but only 61% as likely to identify an incident as PMC post-PMC awareness training after accounting for other variables. We argue that awareness training programmes need to be more aligned to the specific needs of policing in diverse societies.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 741-744
K1 Police
K1 Training
K1 Prejudice
K1 recruits
K1 Vignettes
DO 10.1080/10439463.2016.1206099