Policing Diversity and Vulnerability in the Post-Macpherson Era: Unintended Consequences and Missed Opportunities

Bartkowiak-Théron, Isabelle; Asquith, Nicole L.

doi:10.1093/police/pau038

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“… 10. Similarly, ‘vulnerable’ individuals may reject the label – see Bartkowiak-Theron and Asquith, 2015: 95. See also Munro (2017) for a critique of vulnerability. …”

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Interrogating Vulnerability: Reframing the Vulnerable Suspect in Police Custody

Dehaghani

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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This article considers the definition of the term ‘vulnerability’ in relation to the suspect in police detention and more specifically in relation to the appropriate adult safeguard. Using Fineman’s vulnerability theory, this article argues that all suspects are ‘vulnerable’ and, rather, attention should be focussed on how resilience is depleted, reduced or removed. In doing so, it points towards the limitations of the focus of the current legislative provisions. It situates this discussion within the broader frame of the impact and very nature of police detention and the implications of the broader criminal process as mechanisms that reduce resilience (and possibly deliberately so). Further, it reflects on how the framing of vulnerability in legislation relating to the police detention does not fully capture the position of the suspect in police detention. It concludes then by urging that the definition of the vulnerable suspect is reconceptualised so as to more adequately capture the position of the suspect of the criminal investigation.

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“… 10. Similarly, ‘vulnerable’ individuals may reject the label – see Bartkowiak-Theron and Asquith, 2015: 95. See also Munro (2017) for a critique of vulnerability. …”

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Interrogating Vulnerability: Reframing the Vulnerable Suspect in Police Custody

Dehaghani

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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“…This paper aimed to compare current academic thinking surrounding the term vulnerability with the views and experiences of serving police officers and police staff. The recent focus of attention is that of policing vulnerability (Bartkowiak-Théron & Asquith, 2014). Although the term vulnerability is becoming pervasive in policing, the lack of defining it is illustrated in many ways.…”

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Defining Vulnerability: From the Conceptual to the Operational

Keay

Kirby

2017

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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Whilst police agencies are increasingly being asked to assist vulnerable individuals, the concept of vulnerability, and how it how it should be policed, remains ambiguous. This study compares current academic thinking with the views and experiences of serving police employees. It presents a conceptual map to depict intersecting individual, social and environmental factors, to assist practitioners understand the concept of vulnerability, that also supports data sharing and partnership working. Further, it highlights the central importance of the police in a multi-agency triage process, signposting vulnerable individuals to the most appropriate service.

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“…There are lessons to take from this example about how institutions, infrastructures and academic practices that intended to support vulnerable people can, over time, become problematic. While we will focus on the UK context in which our study takes place, the victim-and community-centered model used by police here has had an influence on policing in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA [6].…”

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Troubling Vulnerability

Gatehouse

Wood

Briggs

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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HCI is increasingly working with 'vulnerable' people, yet there is a danger that the label of vulnerability can alienate and stigmatize the people such work aims to support. We report our study investigating the application of interaction design to increase rates of hate crime reporting amongst Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender young people. During design-led workshops, participants expressed ambivalence towards reporting. While recognizing their exposure to hate crime, they simultaneously rejected being identified as victim as implied in the act of reporting. We used visual communication design to depict the young people's ambivalent identities and contribute insights into how these fail and succeed to account for the intersectional, fluid and emergent nature of LGBT identities through the design research process. We argue that by producing ambiguously designed texts alongside conventional outcomes, we 'trouble' our design research narratives as a tactic to disrupt static and reductive understandings of vulnerability within HCI.

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Policing Diversity and Vulnerability in the Post-Macpherson Era: Unintended Consequences and Missed Opportunities

Cited by 28 publications

References 18 publications

Interrogating Vulnerability: Reframing the Vulnerable Suspect in Police Custody

Interrogating Vulnerability: Reframing the Vulnerable Suspect in Police Custody

Defining Vulnerability: From the Conceptual to the Operational

Troubling Vulnerability

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