RT Article
T1 London, you have a problem with women: trust towards the police in England
JF Policing and society
VO 34
IS 8
SP 747
OP 762
A1 Pickering, Steve
A2 Dorussen, Han 1962-
A2 Hansen, Martin Ejnar
A2 Reifler, Jason
A2 Scotto, Thomas
A2 Sunahara, Yosuke
A2 Yen, Dorothy
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1905377940
AB Following a series of high-profile incidents of violence against women by serving London Metropolitan Police Officers, questions of standards and the public’s confidence in policing are in the spotlight. Over a fifteen-month period between July 2022 and September 2023 using monthly surveys of representative English samples, this study confirms that women, in general, are more trusting in the police than men. This, however, does not hold true in London. Out of nine regions in England, London is the only region where women’s overall trust in the police is lower than men. Lower levels of trust in the police among women in London hold when controls for age, income, political environment and crime levels are considered. In line with existing literature that considers women being more sensitive to cues about trustworthiness, the concerning incidents of sexual violence by police officers against women are likely to further erode trust in police in the capital, which already ranks last among England’s nine regions in citizen trust of the police. Approval was granted for this study to be carried out by the College of Business, Arts and Social Science Research Ethics Committee, Brunel University London. Approval reference: 35290-LR-Jan/2022-37313-1.
K1 London
K1 Gender
K1 Trust
K1 Police
DO 10.1080/10439463.2024.2334009