Elizabeth A Stanko
Biographic Data
| ID | 241432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Stanko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanko |
| SIGNATURE | STANKO E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University, Middlesex, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6259-6880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 353 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
In the Eye of the Storm: Permacrisis in the Investigation of Rape and other Sexual Offences
Low conviction rates and poor victim‐survivor experiences are the hallmarks of the permacrisis in the police investigation of rape. This article highlights the problems and discusses the way forward as proposed by Operation Soteria Bluestone, a police‐academic collaboration aimed at transformational change in the police response to rape
Just Boys Doing Business: Men, Masculinities and Crime
For men, status competition through physical force, dominationhumiliation of the less powerful, and knowing no shame have substantial cultural support. Few societies today contain a majoritarian masculinity that sets its face against violence. In general, women's and men's social movements have failed to nurture credible competing non-violent identities for heterosexual men.2 When such identities are imagined or promoted, they are confined to men…
Contact and confidence: Revisiting the impact of public encounters with the police
Public confidence in policing has become an important issue in the UK. The police rely on legitimacy and public support, and initiatives to improve levels of confidence are currently underway. The point of contact between citizens and officers is vital in any such endeavour. But how are encounters judged and how important for public confidence are assessments of the quality of contacts? We draw upon data from the 2005/2006 Metropolitan Police Pub…
Theorizing About Violence: Observations From the Economic and Social Research Council's Violence Research Program
The director of the Economic and Social Research Council Violence Research Program (VRP) in the United Kingdom discusses and debates the impacts of the program in the context of contemporary ideas about violence and current U.K. policy and practice in the field. The projects in the program included 2 historical studies and 18 contemporary studies of violence in the home, schools, prisons, neighborhoods, leisure establishments, massage parlors, an…
The Meanings of Violence
Introduction - conceptualizing meaning of violence. Part I Headlines from history: violence in press 1850-1914 jump on top, get job done - strategies employed by female prostitutes to reduce risk of client violence violence against children - thresholds of acceptance for physical punishment in a normative study of parents, children and discipline. Part II Violence, meaning and social identities: taking it to heart - girls and meanings of violence…
How Emotions Work
Re-Conceptualising the Policing of Hatred: Confessions and Worrying Dilemmas of a Consultant
The Benefits of Studying Costs: A Review and Agenda for Studies on the Economic Costs of Violence Against Women
This paper reviews studies on the economic costs of violence against women. By taking an economic, cost/benefit perspective, these studies provide data for evaluating services and a language effective for communicating with influential actors, including state and business leaders. They show policymakers the enormous costs resulting from not assisting victims and allowing violence against women to continue. As a result, an economic perspective has…
Unmasking What Should Be Seen: A Study of the Prevention of Domestic Violence in the London Borough of Hackney
This article reports the findings of a study estimating the prevalence of domestic violence for one local area in London, England. Part of a wider project exploring the financial costs of domestic violence to the public purse, this article examines a truism about domestic violence: that it is largely hidden. Through a trawl of key agencies identified by previous U.K. studies to which women turn for assistance, this project estimates that approxim…
Safety Talk: Conceptualizing Women's Risk Assessment as a `Technology of the Soul'
In the present political climates of Western democracies, the `criminology of the self' (Garland, 1996) dominates crime prevention literature. What this means for women, in effect, is that we are asked (and expected) to see the ordinary as risky. This article argues that conventional analyses of women's risk of violence, and `fear of crime' overlooks the effective self-regulation inherent in women's strategies of safekeeping. Women's safety talk …
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Some Thoughts on the Variants of Intimate Violence
Approaches to understanding and potentially intervening in the variations of the risk of lethal and sublethal violence against women are suggested. Batterers vary in their ability to desist techniques of control, patterns of dangerousness, and lethality. Such variations are important to explore because of the extent it offers in maximizing the options for women seeking respite, escape and refuge from such violence. The indisputable evidence that …
Homophobic Violence and the Self 'At Risk: Interrogating the Boundaries
Warnings to Women: Police Advice and Women's Safety in Britain
This article examines police and other governmental crime prevention literature advising women about personal safety. Through a radical feminist perspective, my personal narrative includes a historical context for developments in Britain that give rise to a social and political climate within which individual responsibility for avoiding violence is paramount. The purpose of this article is to raise theoretical questions about the effect of this c…
When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence
Women, Crime, and Fear
This article examines women's fear of crime. Through an examination of current attempts to address women's fear of crime, it is argued that women's anxiety about danger is largely a fear of men and reflects women's location in a gendered world. Confronting women's fear means confronting the danger women face at the hands of their partners, acquaintances, clients, and coworkers, as well as other potential violence from men inside and outside the h…
The contradictions of patriarchal crime control
As feminists we argue that sexual violence is used by men to maintain relations of male dominance and female subordination, which are central to the patriarchal social order. Patriarchy interacts with other power structures, such as those for race, class, age, and ability. These shape women's experience of sexual violence, and the response of the police and others. Men's violence can be confronted only by challenging the patriarchal order and by …
The Case of Fearful Women: Gender, Personal Safety and Fear of Crime
Women's reported level of fear of crime is three times higher than reported by men. Crime surveys though show that it is young men who are at greatest risk to violent victimisation. This paper explores this criminological conundrum of women's fear of crime. It proposes that the analysis and the construction of the concept 'fear of crime' fail to capture women's lived experiences of sexual and physical violence. It further examines the crime preve…
Assault on Men
The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an exploratory study of how men experience criminally defined physical violence. It places men's responses explicitly within a framework that takes masculinity seriously. This paper concludes by raising theoretical issues about male recipients of violence, about ways to offer support to men who experience violence through an understanding about the context of masculinities in men's lives, an…
Intimidating education: Sexual harassment in criminology
This paper presents the findings of a pilot survey on sexual harassment and sexual safety among members of the American Society of Criminology, Women and Crime Division. The majority of female respondents reported receiving a variety of irritating and demeaning comments about their sexuality during their graduate training. This paper briefly discusses these findings and recommends that issues of sexual safety be part of the curriculum for the tra…
Women, Policing and Male Violence: International Perspectives
What Do Men Want
Sexual Victimisation: Two Recent Researches into Sex Problems and Their Social Effects
Rape and the Limits of Law Reform
The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Victims, Workers
The Immoral Landscape: Female Prostitution in Western Societies
Contact and confidence: Revisiting the impact of public encounters with the police
Public confidence in policing has become an important issue in the UK. The police rely on legitimacy and public support, and initiatives to improve levels of confidence are currently underway. The point of contact between citizens and officers is vital in any such endeavour. But how are encounters judged and how important for public confidence are assessments of the quality of contacts? We draw upon data from the 2005/2006 Metropolitan Police Pub…
Women, Crime, and Fear
This article examines women's fear of crime. Through an examination of current attempts to address women's fear of crime, it is argued that women's anxiety about danger is largely a fear of men and reflects women's location in a gendered world. Confronting women's fear means confronting the danger women face at the hands of their partners, acquaintances, clients, and coworkers, as well as other potential violence from men inside and outside the h…
Safety Talk: Conceptualizing Women's Risk Assessment as a `Technology of the Soul'
In the present political climates of Western democracies, the `criminology of the self' (Garland, 1996) dominates crime prevention literature. What this means for women, in effect, is that we are asked (and expected) to see the ordinary as risky. This article argues that conventional analyses of women's risk of violence, and `fear of crime' overlooks the effective self-regulation inherent in women's strategies of safekeeping. Women's safety talk …
The Impact of Victim Assessment on Prosecutors' Screening Decisions: The Case of the New York County District Attorney's Office
This paper examines the discretionary judgments of the prosecutor during the screening of felony arrests. In particular, I emphasize the significance of the victim on the prosecutor's definition of serious crime and criminal activity. Descriptive accounts of felony screening illustrate how prosecutors rely on stereotyped characteristics to assess victim credibility
Warnings to Women: Police Advice and Women's Safety in Britain
This article examines police and other governmental crime prevention literature advising women about personal safety. Through a radical feminist perspective, my personal narrative includes a historical context for developments in Britain that give rise to a social and political climate within which individual responsibility for avoiding violence is paramount. The purpose of this article is to raise theoretical questions about the effect of this c…
Assault on Men
The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an exploratory study of how men experience criminally defined physical violence. It places men's responses explicitly within a framework that takes masculinity seriously. This paper concludes by raising theoretical issues about male recipients of violence, about ways to offer support to men who experience violence through an understanding about the context of masculinities in men's lives, an…
Homophobic Violence and the Self 'At Risk: Interrogating the Boundaries
Re-Conceptualising the Policing of Hatred: Confessions and Worrying Dilemmas of a Consultant
When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence
Theorizing About Violence: Observations From the Economic and Social Research Council's Violence Research Program
The director of the Economic and Social Research Council Violence Research Program (VRP) in the United Kingdom discusses and debates the impacts of the program in the context of contemporary ideas about violence and current U.K. policy and practice in the field. The projects in the program included 2 historical studies and 18 contemporary studies of violence in the home, schools, prisons, neighborhoods, leisure establishments, massage parlors, an…
The Arrest Versus the Case: Some Observations on Police/District Attorney Interaction
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Some Thoughts on the Variants of Intimate Violence
Approaches to understanding and potentially intervening in the variations of the risk of lethal and sublethal violence against women are suggested. Batterers vary in their ability to desist techniques of control, patterns of dangerousness, and lethality. Such variations are important to explore because of the extent it offers in maximizing the options for women seeking respite, escape and refuge from such violence. The indisputable evidence that …
The contradictions of patriarchal crime control
As feminists we argue that sexual violence is used by men to maintain relations of male dominance and female subordination, which are central to the patriarchal social order. Patriarchy interacts with other power structures, such as those for race, class, age, and ability. These shape women's experience of sexual violence, and the response of the police and others. Men's violence can be confronted only by challenging the patriarchal order and by …
What Do Men Want
Deviants and deviance
The Arrest Versus the Case: Some Observations on Police/District Attorney Interaction
The Immoral Landscape: Female Prostitution in Western Societies
The Impact of Victim Assessment on Prosecutors' Screening Decisions: The Case of the New York County District Attorney's Office
This paper examines the discretionary judgments of the prosecutor during the screening of felony arrests. In particular, I emphasize the significance of the victim on the prosecutor's definition of serious crime and criminal activity. Descriptive accounts of felony screening illustrate how prosecutors rely on stereotyped characteristics to assess victim credibility
Rape and the Limits of Law Reform
The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Victims, Workers
Sexual Victimisation: Two Recent Researches into Sex Problems and Their Social Effects
Women, Policing and Male Violence: International Perspectives
What Do Men Want
Intimidating education: Sexual harassment in criminology
This paper presents the findings of a pilot survey on sexual harassment and sexual safety among members of the American Society of Criminology, Women and Crime Division. The majority of female respondents reported receiving a variety of irritating and demeaning comments about their sexuality during their graduate training. This paper briefly discusses these findings and recommends that issues of sexual safety be part of the curriculum for the tra…
The Case of Fearful Women: Gender, Personal Safety and Fear of Crime
Women's reported level of fear of crime is three times higher than reported by men. Crime surveys though show that it is young men who are at greatest risk to violent victimisation. This paper explores this criminological conundrum of women's fear of crime. It proposes that the analysis and the construction of the concept 'fear of crime' fail to capture women's lived experiences of sexual and physical violence. It further examines the crime preve…
Assault on Men
The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an exploratory study of how men experience criminally defined physical violence. It places men's responses explicitly within a framework that takes masculinity seriously. This paper concludes by raising theoretical issues about male recipients of violence, about ways to offer support to men who experience violence through an understanding about the context of masculinities in men's lives, an…
The contradictions of patriarchal crime control
As feminists we argue that sexual violence is used by men to maintain relations of male dominance and female subordination, which are central to the patriarchal social order. Patriarchy interacts with other power structures, such as those for race, class, age, and ability. These shape women's experience of sexual violence, and the response of the police and others. Men's violence can be confronted only by challenging the patriarchal order and by …
Women, Crime, and Fear
This article examines women's fear of crime. Through an examination of current attempts to address women's fear of crime, it is argued that women's anxiety about danger is largely a fear of men and reflects women's location in a gendered world. Confronting women's fear means confronting the danger women face at the hands of their partners, acquaintances, clients, and coworkers, as well as other potential violence from men inside and outside the h…
Warnings to Women: Police Advice and Women's Safety in Britain
This article examines police and other governmental crime prevention literature advising women about personal safety. Through a radical feminist perspective, my personal narrative includes a historical context for developments in Britain that give rise to a social and political climate within which individual responsibility for avoiding violence is paramount. The purpose of this article is to raise theoretical questions about the effect of this c…
When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence
Safety Talk: Conceptualizing Women's Risk Assessment as a `Technology of the Soul'
In the present political climates of Western democracies, the `criminology of the self' (Garland, 1996) dominates crime prevention literature. What this means for women, in effect, is that we are asked (and expected) to see the ordinary as risky. This article argues that conventional analyses of women's risk of violence, and `fear of crime' overlooks the effective self-regulation inherent in women's strategies of safekeeping. Women's safety talk …
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Some Thoughts on the Variants of Intimate Violence
Approaches to understanding and potentially intervening in the variations of the risk of lethal and sublethal violence against women are suggested. Batterers vary in their ability to desist techniques of control, patterns of dangerousness, and lethality. Such variations are important to explore because of the extent it offers in maximizing the options for women seeking respite, escape and refuge from such violence. The indisputable evidence that …
Homophobic Violence and the Self 'At Risk: Interrogating the Boundaries
The Benefits of Studying Costs: A Review and Agenda for Studies on the Economic Costs of Violence Against Women
This paper reviews studies on the economic costs of violence against women. By taking an economic, cost/benefit perspective, these studies provide data for evaluating services and a language effective for communicating with influential actors, including state and business leaders. They show policymakers the enormous costs resulting from not assisting victims and allowing violence against women to continue. As a result, an economic perspective has…
Unmasking What Should Be Seen: A Study of the Prevention of Domestic Violence in the London Borough of Hackney
This article reports the findings of a study estimating the prevalence of domestic violence for one local area in London, England. Part of a wider project exploring the financial costs of domestic violence to the public purse, this article examines a truism about domestic violence: that it is largely hidden. Through a trawl of key agencies identified by previous U.K. studies to which women turn for assistance, this project estimates that approxim…
Re-Conceptualising the Policing of Hatred: Confessions and Worrying Dilemmas of a Consultant
How Emotions Work
The Meanings of Violence
Introduction - conceptualizing meaning of violence. Part I Headlines from history: violence in press 1850-1914 jump on top, get job done - strategies employed by female prostitutes to reduce risk of client violence violence against children - thresholds of acceptance for physical punishment in a normative study of parents, children and discipline. Part II Violence, meaning and social identities: taking it to heart - girls and meanings of violence…
Theorizing About Violence: Observations From the Economic and Social Research Council's Violence Research Program
The director of the Economic and Social Research Council Violence Research Program (VRP) in the United Kingdom discusses and debates the impacts of the program in the context of contemporary ideas about violence and current U.K. policy and practice in the field. The projects in the program included 2 historical studies and 18 contemporary studies of violence in the home, schools, prisons, neighborhoods, leisure establishments, massage parlors, an…
Criminology (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Poison control (10 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works)