Typifying American Exceptionalism

Robinson, Amanda L.; Maxwell, Christopher D.

doi:10.1002/9781118924501.ch21

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“…Furthermore, cross-national comparative research on this topic is absent, precluding an understanding of how societal and cultural factors might shape officers' understanding of domestic abuse risk. For example, although the overall rates of domestic abuse in the US and UK are comparable, the rate of intimate partner homicide is much higher in the US (Maxwell and Robinson 2013), in large part due to the use of firearms, particularly handguns, which is a distinctive characteristic of American homicide (Robinson and Maxwell 2016). Thus, weapons as a signifier for producing potentially lethal harm are more likely to inform police perceptions of risk in the US.…”

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A small constellation: risk factors informing police perceptions of domestic abuse

Robinson

Pinchevsky

Guthrie

2016

Policing and Society

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Police in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) now routinely use risk assessment tools to identify common risk factors for re-abuse and lethality when responding to domestic abuse. Nevertheless, little is known about the extent to which officers understand and perceive the importance of factors commonly included on risk assessment tools for predicting future abuse. This study attempts to shed some light into this area of research by exploring the responses of 720 British and American police officers to questions regarding how important and how essential various risk factors are for evaluating the level of risk or harm a victim of domestic abuse may face in the future. Findings indicated that British and American officers were largely in agreement about a small constellation of risk factors that they considered integral to the risk assessment process: using or threatening to use a weapon; strangulation; physical assault resulting in injury and escalation of abuse. The results revealed that officers' country of employment, rather than their demographic characteristics or experience policing domestic abuse, was a particularly influential predictor of their perceptions, and that both the situational context and the victim's perception about risk are important in domestic abuse risk assessment.

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A small constellation: risk factors informing police perceptions of domestic abuse

Robinson

Pinchevsky

Guthrie

2016

Policing and Society

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“…None of the podcasts covered cases of adult, ethnic minority men as murder victims -the group most often disproportionately represented in homicide statistics (Robinson and Maxwell, 2017). However, simply saying that these podcasts reproduced existing hierarchies of victimization would be to overlook their nuances and critique of how they told the stories, as this too has implications for our understandings of popular criminology's framing of hierarchies of victimization.…”

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Forever trapped in the imaginary of late capitalism? The serialized true crime podcast as a wake-up call in times of criminological slumber

Yardley

Kelly

Robinson-Edwards

2018

Crime, Media, Culture

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Within this article, we explore the emergence of the serialized true crime podcast through an ultra-realist lens. These representations have become increasingly popular in recent years and appear to embody changing sensibilities towards crime and criminal justice – we critically consider whether serialized true crime podcasts do or could represent a change from the true crime of the past. More importantly, we question the extent to which academic criminology is equipped to engage in critical analysis of this media and address the questions that they raise about crime and society’s response to it in late capitalist society.

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Typifying American Exceptionalism

Cited by 2 publications

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A small constellation: risk factors informing police perceptions of domestic abuse

A small constellation: risk factors informing police perceptions of domestic abuse

Forever trapped in the imaginary of late capitalism? The serialized true crime podcast as a wake-up call in times of criminological slumber

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