TY - JOUR
T1 - “I’m Wise to the Game”
T2 - How Inner-City Women Experience and Navigate Police Raids
AU - Greene, Carolyn
AU - Urbanik, Marta Marika
AU - Yankey, Manzah Kyentoh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Despite the plethora of research on inner-city policing, little is known about how women experience and make sense of involuntary police encounters. Based upon interviews with women who had their homes raided by police in Toronto’s inner-city, this paper explores how these marginalized women perceive, navigate, and resist normative gender expectations in their interactions with police officers during raids. Our findings demonstrate that women believed officers treated them according to gendered stereotypes, and in response, women strategically deployed gendered presentations in an effort to resist, negotiate, and temper anticipated raid related harms. However, participants’ positionality constrained their efforts.
AB - Despite the plethora of research on inner-city policing, little is known about how women experience and make sense of involuntary police encounters. Based upon interviews with women who had their homes raided by police in Toronto’s inner-city, this paper explores how these marginalized women perceive, navigate, and resist normative gender expectations in their interactions with police officers during raids. Our findings demonstrate that women believed officers treated them according to gendered stereotypes, and in response, women strategically deployed gendered presentations in an effort to resist, negotiate, and temper anticipated raid related harms. However, participants’ positionality constrained their efforts.
KW - gender
KW - policing
KW - qualitative research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103578889&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/15570851211005541
DO - 10.1177/15570851211005541
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103578889
SN - 1557-0851
VL - 16
SP - 403
EP - 423
JO - Feminist Criminology
JF - Feminist Criminology
IS - 4
ER -