The Police as a 'Gender Regime'

Question 1

Police organisations characterised by:

High levels of…

Answer 1

discrimination

Question 2

Police organisations characterised by:

Segregation by…

Answer 2

gender

Question 3

Police organisations characterised by:

High levels of…

Answer 3

sexual harassment/assault

Question 4

Has been progress - but it takes a long time to change an…

Answer 4

underlying culture, e.g. ‘canteen culture’

Question 5

Think about how internal culture may impact responses to DA and in particular the notion of the police as a…

Answer 5

gender regime

Question 6

What does this type of behaviour look like?

Answer 6

-Sexually denigrating and controlling behaviour that comprises coercive control

Question 7

Alison HALFORD 1993 - First person to bring sex discrimination case after being turned down for promotion 9 times in favour of

Answer 7

male colleagues

Question 8

HALFORD 1993:17 -
“The women [candidates] were lined up alongside each other and paraded in front of a mixed panel of very senior police officers who instructed us to remove all our upper clothing… Then we were given a looking over and expected, in this highly vulnerable state of undress to…

Answer 8

answer a series of questions”

Question 9

Presence of sexualised ‘banter’ such as (3):

Answer 9

crude nicknames

male officers boasting about sexual conquests, including sexual assaults

exchanging pornography