Pickering, Steve and Dorussen, Han and Hansen, Martin Ejnar and Reifler, Jason and Scotto, Thomas and Sunahara, Yosuke and Yen, Dorothy (2024) London, you have a problem with women: trust towards the police in England. Policing and Society, 34 (8). pp. 747-762. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2334009
Pickering, Steve and Dorussen, Han and Hansen, Martin Ejnar and Reifler, Jason and Scotto, Thomas and Sunahara, Yosuke and Yen, Dorothy (2024) London, you have a problem with women: trust towards the police in England. Policing and Society, 34 (8). pp. 747-762. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2334009
Pickering, Steve and Dorussen, Han and Hansen, Martin Ejnar and Reifler, Jason and Scotto, Thomas and Sunahara, Yosuke and Yen, Dorothy (2024) London, you have a problem with women: trust towards the police in England. Policing and Society, 34 (8). pp. 747-762. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2334009
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Police; Trust; Gender; London |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2024 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:25 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38226 |
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