Many studies have been conducted over the past few decades to assess gender differences in police officers’ attitudes towards critical aspects of policing. Nonetheless, this line of inquiry has focused predominately on police officers in Western democracies, with limited attention to gender differences in societies where cultural traditions and gender inequalities remain influential in shaping police officers’ occupational attitudes. Using survey data collected from over 1,900 police officers in a northern Chinese province, this study assesses whether female and male officers differ in their attitudes towards supervisor treatment, psychological and physical conditions, and intention to leave the profession. We found that female police officers displayed occupational attitudes that distinguish them from their male counterparts. Contrary to Western evidence, Chinese female officers expressed lower intentions to leave the police profession than male officers. Female officers also reported better wellbeing with lower stress and health concerns than their male counterparts. We also found that supervisors’ procedurally fair treatment and support of technological advancement are associated with lower turnover intention. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.
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Police decision-making in sexual assault cases has received considerable attention due to case attrition. Limited studies, however, have focused on early police processes as a path for case attrition. The current study used sexual assault cases reported to a large, urban police department, located in one of the five largest and most diverse U.S. cities to examine the role of case factors along with characteristics that represent the “real rape” stereotype on decisions to: 1) assign a sexual assault case to an investigator and 2) the time to investigator assignment. Results revealed that most cases will be assigned to an investigator and that oftentimes, this will occur promptly. Analyses indicated that victim age, suspect identification, evidentiary strength, and training predicted investigator assignment decisions, while victim race/ethnicity and the “real rape” stereotype predicted time to investigator assignment. Research and policy implications are discussed.
{"title":"Investigative decision-making in sexual assault case processing","authors":"Alondra D. Garza","doi":"10.1093/police/paae023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Police decision-making in sexual assault cases has received considerable attention due to case attrition. Limited studies, however, have focused on early police processes as a path for case attrition. The current study used sexual assault cases reported to a large, urban police department, located in one of the five largest and most diverse U.S. cities to examine the role of case factors along with characteristics that represent the “real rape” stereotype on decisions to: 1) assign a sexual assault case to an investigator and 2) the time to investigator assignment. Results revealed that most cases will be assigned to an investigator and that oftentimes, this will occur promptly. Analyses indicated that victim age, suspect identification, evidentiary strength, and training predicted investigator assignment decisions, while victim race/ethnicity and the “real rape” stereotype predicted time to investigator assignment. Research and policy implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":516781,"journal":{"name":"Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice","volume":"1 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140521822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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