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Police perceptions of prejudice: how police awareness training influences the capacity of police to assess prejudiced motivated crime

Police perceptions of prejudice: how police awareness training influences the capacity of police to assess prejudiced motivated crime
Police perceptions of prejudice: how police awareness training influences the capacity of police to assess prejudiced motivated crime
Prejudice motivated crime (PMC) is defined as crimes motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred towards members of particular groups, communities and individuals. To understand how police awareness training facilitates or constrains the capacity of police officers to appropriately classify and respond to PMC, data were collected from a population of Police Recruits (PRs) and Protective Service Officers (PSOs) (N = 1609) to ascertain their perceptions of PMC pre and post PMC awareness training. These were used in a logistic regression model to identify factors explaining whether PRs and PSOs would identify a vignette/scenario as a PMC. We found PRs and PSOs were more likely to correctly identify a PMC scenario than a control scenario, but only 61% as likely to identify an incident as PMC post PMC awareness training after accounting for other variables. We argue that awareness training programs need to be more aligned to the specific needs of policing in diverse societies.
1043-9463
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Miles-Johnson, Toby
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Pickering, Sharon
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Smith, Paul
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Pickering, Sharon
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Miles-Johnson, Toby, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Pickering, Sharon and Smith, Paul (2018) Police perceptions of prejudice: how police awareness training influences the capacity of police to assess prejudiced motivated crime. Policing and Society, 28 (6), 730-745. (doi:10.1080/10439463.2016.1206099).

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Prejudice motivated crime (PMC) is defined as crimes motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred towards members of particular groups, communities and individuals. To understand how police awareness training facilitates or constrains the capacity of police officers to appropriately classify and respond to PMC, data were collected from a population of Police Recruits (PRs) and Protective Service Officers (PSOs) (N = 1609) to ascertain their perceptions of PMC pre and post PMC awareness training. These were used in a logistic regression model to identify factors explaining whether PRs and PSOs would identify a vignette/scenario as a PMC. We found PRs and PSOs were more likely to correctly identify a PMC scenario than a control scenario, but only 61% as likely to identify an incident as PMC post PMC awareness training after accounting for other variables. We argue that awareness training programs need to be more aligned to the specific needs of policing in diverse societies.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 June 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 July 2016
Published date: 2018
Organisations: Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

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Local EPrints ID: 397470
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397470
ISSN: 1043-9463
PURE UUID: bdd808be-bea4-4f8c-b222-289714146bfe
ORCID for Paul Smith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5337-2746

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Date deposited: 01 Jul 2016 13:22
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:42

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Author: Toby Miles-Johnson
Author: Lorraine Mazerolle
Author: Sharon Pickering
Author: Paul Smith ORCID iD

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