RT Article
T1 Will Boys Always Be Boys? The Criminalization of Street Harassment in Portugal
JF Violence against women
VO 30
IS 6/7
SP 1431
OP 1452
A1 Ribeiro, Beatriz C. 1977-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1885428030
AB Albeit one of the most pervasive forms of gender violence, street harassment tends to be either not considered a crime or to be faulty criminalized. This investigation contributes to better understand the overall inefficiency of existing laws through an analysis of the criminalization of street harassment in Portugal. Particularly, it searches for obstacles to implementation among those responsible for the process—the street-level bureaucrats of the Portuguese Public Security Police. Through 14 semi-structured interviews, three groups of obstacles to implementation were identified: perceptions of the legislation's content, a masculinist institutional culture, and personal characteristics. These are new findings that contribute to an understanding of the perpetuation of gender violence through state's institutions and workers.
K1 Police
K1 street-level bureaucrats
K1 Public Policy
K1 Gender Violence
K1 Street Harassment
DO 10.1177/10778012221150276