Gender, policing and social order: restating the case for a feminist analysis of policing
This chapter seeks to reassert the case that policing is, and always has been, a feminist issue. By examining current police responses to women in a range of contexts, the chapter argues that policing requires a renewed feminist analysis that should be central to a feminist criminology in the 21st c...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2024
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Feminist responses to injustices of the state and its institutions
Año: 2024, Páginas: 121-140 |
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| Sumario: | This chapter seeks to reassert the case that policing is, and always has been, a feminist issue. By examining current police responses to women in a range of contexts, the chapter argues that policing requires a renewed feminist analysis that should be central to a feminist criminology in the 21st century. The chapter begins by examining a range of contemporary issues that highlight problems in the police response to women and girls and, as a result, points to the enduring relevance of gender to analyses of policing. It then explores how policing was critically examined in foundational feminist criminological work in the 1980s and considers the extent to which the central ideas remain relevant and useful to us today. From this point, the chapter seeks to demonstrate that feminist theory and a critical theory of police power can be brought together to help us understand the role of gender in the vision of order pursued by police. Finally, the chapter suggests that we need to understand both the gendered forms that policing takes and the role that policing plays in (re)producing gender norms. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 135-140 |
| ISBN: | 9781529207293 |