Essays about: "gender and policing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words gender and policing.

1. 1. "Doing" masculinity in police work: A study of the narratives of 'becoming' a police officer in Sweden

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kriminologi (KR)

   Author : Ana Filipa da Silva Carvalho; [2023]
   Keywords : gender and policing; gendered practices; narrative interview; police story-telling; Sweden; subjectivity; gender equality; police work; jämställdhet; polis arbete;

   Abstract : Police officer has been conventionally regarded as a masculine occupation, where values such as strength, aggressivity and, bravery are commemorated. In Sweden, a country that is highly regarded for its gender equality status, understanding how police officers navigate gendered expectations is crucial to understand the implications of gender in policing. READ MORE

3. 2. Presentations of Femininity in Patrick Marber's Closer

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Anna Olsson; [2014-02-07]
   Keywords : engelska; Closer; Patrick Marber; British theatre; Michel Foucault; gender; representations of femininity;

   Abstract : This essay explores the presentation of femininity in Patrick Marber's play Closer from perspectives borrowed from Michel Foucault and feminists inspired by post-structuralism and social constructivism. Foucault describes how self-policing subjects, or docile bodies, are created through the internalisation of dominant discourses in the performances of every-day life under the disciplinary powers of regulation, surveillance and classification. READ MORE

4. 3. Central American Female Migration and the Micro-Politics of Border Control: Mobile Ethnography along the Migrant Route in Mexico

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Sara Alemir; [2014]
   Keywords : gender; migration; illegality; borders; Mexico; Central America; United States; ethnography; mobile research; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Every year hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants from mainly Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador embark on a journey through Mexican territory with the hopes of a better future in the United States - estimations suggest that up to thirty percent are women. Transnational migration is due to heightened violence in Central America on the rise. READ MORE

5. 4. FEELINGS OF SAFETY : Feelings of Safety In The Presence Of the Police, Security Guards and Police Volunteers

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

   Author : Maria Doyle; [2014]
   Keywords : feelings of safety; policing; security guards; police volunteers; foot patrol; vehicle patrol;

   Abstract : Uniformed presences are thought to create feelings of safety in people. However, do different uniformed people contribute to the same amount of safety and are there differences dependent on the situation? The present study examined the association between various types of uniformed presence and people’s feelings of safety through a questionnaire among 352 respondents (18-86 years) (49. READ MORE

6. 5. Informed in and through difference: The perspectives of Johannesburg's suburban reservists and their role in the SAPS

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Claudia Forster-Towne; [2013]
   Keywords : Police; reservist; inequalities; articulated categories; subjectivity; South Africa; Johannesburg; South African Police Service; SAPS; identity; inequality regime; situated psychoanalysis; bio-power; gender; race; class; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Despite a fair amount of academic attention being afforded to the South African Police Service (SAPS), one actor within it has been constantly ignored. Considering reservists make in excess of 15% of the overall policing staff (albeit only as temporary staff) in Gauteng this gap is surprising. READ MORE