Perceptions of the Police by LGBT Communities

Owen, Stephen; Burke, Tod W.; Few‐Demo, April L.; Natwick, Jameson

doi:10.1007/s12103-017-9420-8

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“…Finally, and relatedly, victims of same-sex IPV may lack confidence in the effectiveness of law enforcement officers and other criminal justice actors in dealing with their case (e.g., Aulivola, 2004;Brown & Herman, 2015;Burke et al, 2002;Eaton et al, 2008;Goodmark, 2013;Stapel, 2007;Wolff & Cokely, 2007). In other words, recent research has indicated that perceptions of police legitimacy may be especially low among the LGB population (e.g., Dario et al, 2019;Owen et al, 2017). Indeed, while recent research conducted by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP, 2015) found that the majority of LGB victims reported their experiences with IPV to the police, a number of other studies have found that LGB victims did not believe that police would be helpful in addressing such victimization incidents (McClennen et al, 2002;Owen et al, 2017;Poorman, 2001;Renzetti, 1988;Turrell, 2000).…”

Section: Prior Research On Same-sex Ipvmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other words, recent research has indicated that perceptions of police legitimacy may be especially low among the LGB population (e.g., Dario et al, 2019;Owen et al, 2017). Indeed, while recent research conducted by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP, 2015) found that the majority of LGB victims reported their experiences with IPV to the police, a number of other studies have found that LGB victims did not believe that police would be helpful in addressing such victimization incidents (McClennen et al, 2002;Owen et al, 2017;Poorman, 2001;Renzetti, 1988;Turrell, 2000). Finneran and Stephenson (2013), for example, found that 59% of gay and bisexual survey respondents believed that police would be less helpful toward them than heterosexual victims.…”

Section: Prior Research On Same-sex Ipvmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Victim, Police, and Prosecutorial Responses to Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: A Comparative Approach

Lantz

2019

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) and the criminal justice response to such incidents is extensive, but the majority of this research has focused on IPV perpetrated by men against women in heterosexual partnerships. Yet, recent research has indicated that the prevalence of IPV among LGB (lesbian, gay, and bisexual) individuals may be as high as or higher than that of the general population. At the same time, a significant body of research has examined police and prosecutorial responses to IPV; again, the overwhelming majority of this research has also focused on heterosexual partners. Following this, the current research uses National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data to create dyads of both opposite-sex (i.e., male–female and female–male) and same-sex partners (i.e., male–male and female–female) to investigate the joint relationship between sex, sexual orientation, and three different criminal justice outcomes: victim refusal to cooperate with police, police decision to arrest, and the prosecutorial decision to deny a case.

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Section: Prior Research On Same-sex Ipvmentioning

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Section: Prior Research On Same-sex Ipvmentioning

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Victim, Police, and Prosecutorial Responses to Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: A Comparative Approach

Lantz

2019

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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“…Furthermore, issues related to statistical power prevented us from fully exploring interaction effects for race/ethnicity and sexual orientation in the multivariate models. This is an important limitation to our findings, given the well-documented, historical mistreatment of communities of color and LGBTQ communities by the police (Author et al, 2018;Dario et al, 2019;Mallory et al, 2015;Owen et al, 2018). Lastly, our small sample size of individuals who reported exposure to sexual victimization perpetrated by the police (n = 42) may have impacted our finding that found no associations with perceived police legitimacy/trust and satisfaction with police performance.…”

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“…Empirical evidence also finds negatively held police perceptions among LGBT individuals (Owen et al, 2018), and transgender persons specifically, have reported even lower ratings of the police when compared to cisgender men and cisgender women . Dario and colleagues (2019) also found that lesbian, bisexual, and transgender females held less favorable police perceptions when compared to heterosexual cisgender women and gay males.…”

Section: Perceptions Of the Policementioning

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Police Violence and Associations With Public Perceptions of the Police

Jackson

Fedina

DeVylder

et al. 2021

Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

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Objective: Police violence (PV) continues to be of national and global concern. A rich body of empirical work on PV focuses on its prevalence, those who are most at risk, associated mental health effects, and frequently include all male samples. Examining PV also tends to rely on narrow measurements that only focus on physical force or fatal encounters as opposed to specific forms of PV. Our study examined these gaps in knowledge by exploring more explicit forms of PV (e.g. police neglect, psychological, physical, and sexual violence perpetrated by the police) to examine whether these forms of PV were related to perceptions of the police (e.g. police legitimacy/trust, police effectiveness, and satisfaction with police performance). Method: We used data collected from the 2017 Survey of Police-Public Encounters, a cross-sectional, demographically representative survey of adults residing in Baltimore and New York City (N = 1,000). Lifetime PV exposure is assessed using the Police Practices Inventory (PPI), which includes indicators assessing more detailed forms of PV. Results: Linear regression results indicated that most forms of PV were significantly and inversely associated with police perceptions. Individuals exposed to PV who were younger, female, had lower levels of education and income, identified as a racial/ethnic minority, and were U.S. born held more negative police perceptions. Conclusions: Findings contribute by providing more contextual insight into the ways exposure to specific types of PV influenced how the police were perceived and how those perspectives varied across a range of demographic factors.

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“…As such police have discretionary power to utilize policing practices influenced by officers’ value systems and ideologies (Dai et al, 2011). The interaction between LGBTIQ+ people and law enforcement officers has often been dictated by the reinforcement of values and ideologies based on heteronormative perceptions of behavior (Owen et al, 2018). Many incidents of policing between officers and LGBTIQ+ people in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, have resulted in negative outcomes for LGBTIQ+ people with numerous pieces of literature demonstrating problematic relationships between Australian police as one dominant social group and LGBTIQ+ people as another less powerful social group 1 (Dwyer et al, 2017; Mennicke et al, 2018; Owen et al, 2018).…”

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Compensating for Sexual Identity: How LGB and Heterosexual Australian Police Officers Perceive Policing of LGBTIQ+ People

Miles-Johnson

Death

2019

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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Police officers are highly criticized for their differential policing of people categorized by identity. One such group who has experienced differential policing is the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) community. Contributing new knowledge to the extant policing literature regarding intersectional identities of Australian police officers and perceptions of policing, this research applies Social Identity Theory to understand differences between lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and heterosexual self-identified general-duties police officers ( N = 349) and policing of LGBTIQ+ people. Using an online survey, results suggest the sexual identity of a general-duties police officer does shape perceptions of policing of LGBTIQ+ people. Furthermore, there are distinct differences in the way heterosexual and lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) self-identified officers perceive police engagement with LGBTIQ+ people, with LGB and heterosexual self-identified officers equally compensating for their sexual identity in terms of policing LGBTIQ+ people and distancing themselves from the LGBTIQ+ community.

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Perceptions of the Police by LGBT Communities

Cited by 51 publications

References 48 publications

Victim, Police, and Prosecutorial Responses to Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: A Comparative Approach

Victim, Police, and Prosecutorial Responses to Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: A Comparative Approach

Police Violence and Associations With Public Perceptions of the Police

Compensating for Sexual Identity: How LGB and Heterosexual Australian Police Officers Perceive Policing of LGBTIQ+ People

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