‘We Call it Getting Your Eye In’: policing Sexual Harassment on the London Underground Through the Lens of Haraway’s Situated Knowledges and Cyborgs

This article explores police perspectives of sexual harassment on the London Underground. Drawing on 15 semi-structured interviews with the British Transport Police this article demonstrates how the police a) use their ‘situated knowledges’ to make sense of the dynamics of the London Underground and...

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Main Author: Lewis, Sian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 63, Issue: 5, Pages: 1129-1145
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Keywords:
Sexual Harassment
situated knowledges
cyborgs
Technology
Police Culture
British Transport Police
London Underground
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Summary:This article explores police perspectives of sexual harassment on the London Underground. Drawing on 15 semi-structured interviews with the British Transport Police this article demonstrates how the police a) use their ‘situated knowledges’ to make sense of the dynamics of the London Underground and seek out offenders within the network, often without a report of harassment; and b) engage with technologies in order to (re)construct incidents of sexual harassment so that they can be investigated. The article argues that the BTP occupy a ‘soft cyborg ontology’, and claims the implications this has on epistemologies and methods of policing as significant. As well as permitting new insights into the procedures of policing sexual harassment on public transport, it contributes a critical perspective to the role of technology in police culture, practice and methods.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 1142-1145
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azac080