Policing diversity: examining police resistance to training reforms for transgender people in Australia
Policing diversity: examining police resistance to training reforms for transgender people in Australia
Using field notes collected from participant observation of Australian police officers training to work with the transgender community, the current research builds upon previous work examining Social Identity Theory (Tajfel, 2010) to explain how one training program implemented to educate police about transgender people challenges police culture. This research determines that police culture, training procedures, and stereotypes of gender are equally influential on police perceptions of all transgender people. Overall, the results indicate that negative police perceptions towards police training reforms strengthen in-group identity of police, and negative out-group perceptions of transgender people.
police, policing, training, transgender, social identity theory, observation
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Miles-Johnson, Toby
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Miles-Johnson, Toby
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Miles-Johnson, Toby
(2015)
Policing diversity: examining police resistance to training reforms for transgender people in Australia.
Journal of Homosexuality, .
(doi:10.1080/00918369.2015.1078627).
Abstract
Using field notes collected from participant observation of Australian police officers training to work with the transgender community, the current research builds upon previous work examining Social Identity Theory (Tajfel, 2010) to explain how one training program implemented to educate police about transgender people challenges police culture. This research determines that police culture, training procedures, and stereotypes of gender are equally influential on police perceptions of all transgender people. Overall, the results indicate that negative police perceptions towards police training reforms strengthen in-group identity of police, and negative out-group perceptions of transgender people.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 August 2015
Keywords:
police, policing, training, transgender, social identity theory, observation
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Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences
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Local EPrints ID: 378692
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378692
ISSN: 0091-8369
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