Doing Crime Prevention, Doing Gender: canadian Women’s Responses to Police-Produced Gendered Crime-Prevention Messaging
Drawing on focus group and interview data, this paper examines how race and social class intersect with gender to inform Canadian women’s responses to police-produced gendered crime-prevention messaging. I position women’s enactments of institutionally endorsed crime-prevention strategies as a resou...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2023
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 63, Issue: 4, Pages: 948-966 |
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Summary: | Drawing on focus group and interview data, this paper examines how race and social class intersect with gender to inform Canadian women’s responses to police-produced gendered crime-prevention messaging. I position women’s enactments of institutionally endorsed crime-prevention strategies as a resource for the successful achievement of femininity, and I consider how intersecting social statuses shape how women do crime prevention. Focus group dialogue reveals three orientations to police crime-prevention messaging: resentment, pragmatism and gratitude. Across orientations, women strategically enact state imperatives to meet their own agentic ends. By identifying crime prevention as a resource for achieving femininity and highlighting racialized and classed dimensions in women’s gender performances, this research enriches extant literature on crime prevention and femininities. |
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Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 964-966 |
ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azac072 |