Police officers‟ perceptions of gender-motivated violence against women have been
overlooked in hate crime research. In an attempt to fill a gap in the hate crime, violence against
women, and policing hate crime literature, I examine how nine police officers understand
gender-motivated violence in Canada using vignettes, sentence-competition tasks, and an
interview guide. Here, participants are asked about their perceptions of and experience with hate
crime and gender-motivated hate crime against women. Results indicate that the majority of
participants do not perceive hypothetical instance of violence against women as hate crime, all of
which is a product of: victim-perpetrator relationships, ambiguous motives and alternative
motives, and definitional constraints with legal terms. Equally, factors and conditions that
influence police officers‟ perceptions relate to: the typical victims of hate notion, police routine
and experience with hate crime and gender-motivated violence, hate crime legislation, hate crime
policies and procedures for police, and hate crime training for police. / UOIT
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OOSHDU.10155/198 |
| Date | 01 September 2011 |
| Creators | Scrivens, Ryan |
| Contributors | Perry, Barbara |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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