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Perceptions of group value: how Australian transgender people view policing

Perceptions of group value: how Australian transgender people view policing
Perceptions of group value: how Australian transgender people view policing
In Australia, no one really knows how widespread the Transgender community actually is since transgender people are relatively diffuse and hidden and comprise a ‘hard to get at population’. One recognised form of researching hard-to-reach populations is through online surveys. Online surveys with members of minority groups have significant advantages over other data collection methods, particularly when asking respondents about their perceptions of authoritarian in-groups such as the police. Under the theoretical framework of Social Identity Theory, and the Group-Value Model, an online survey was used to capture transgender peoples' perceptions of the police. This article determines that the gender identities of transgender participants who have had previous contact with police in their professional capacity significantly shapes negative perceptions of treatment quality from police officers
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Miles-Johnson, Toby
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Miles-Johnson, Toby
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Miles-Johnson, Toby (2015) Perceptions of group value: how Australian transgender people view policing. Policing and Society, 1-24. (doi:10.1080/10439463.2014.996563).

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In Australia, no one really knows how widespread the Transgender community actually is since transgender people are relatively diffuse and hidden and comprise a ‘hard to get at population’. One recognised form of researching hard-to-reach populations is through online surveys. Online surveys with members of minority groups have significant advantages over other data collection methods, particularly when asking respondents about their perceptions of authoritarian in-groups such as the police. Under the theoretical framework of Social Identity Theory, and the Group-Value Model, an online survey was used to capture transgender peoples' perceptions of the police. This article determines that the gender identities of transgender participants who have had previous contact with police in their professional capacity significantly shapes negative perceptions of treatment quality from police officers

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 December 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 January 2015
Published date: 3 January 2015
Organisations: Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

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Local EPrints ID: 378374
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378374
ISSN: 1043-9463
PURE UUID: 0b8a7969-dcd3-4f04-900e-ae02c08832ff

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Date deposited: 02 Jul 2015 10:21
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 20:22

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Author: Toby Miles-Johnson

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