Marisa Silvestri
Biographic Data
| ID | 4271479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marisa Silvestri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Silvestri |
| SIGNATURE | SILVESTRI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8351-6285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women police leaders in Europe
This article provides rich and unique insights into the experiences of women police leaders across seven European regions. Drawing on interview data, it presents accounts of women’s experiences in policing and identifies informal and formal barriers to their advancement in European police organizations. Women police leaders report high levels of gender discrimination, obstruction and prejudice over the course of their careers. We argue that there…
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy
Policewomen’s perceptions of occupational culture in the changing policing environment of England and Wales
Liminality is the transitional phase of a rite of passage when individuals no longer hold to their traditions but have yet to transition to a new status. Utilising cultural characterisations reported by a sample of policewomen ( N = 127) from England and Wales, a hierarchical cluster analysis revealed empirical demonstration of a traditional preliminal condition, a transforming postliminal state and a liminal betwixt and between period, which are…
A police service in transformation
This paper presents an overview of current trends besetting the police service in England and Wales, including the reduction of resources through austerity pressures, changing patterns of crime such as rises in cyber-related offences, greater victim focus, the introduction of graduate entry and changes in political accountability through the newly elected Police and Crime Commissioners. Secondary analysis of data enabled an assessment of the degr…
Critical Perspectives on Police Leadership
In a critical analysis of conventional understanding, leading authors Claire Davis and Marisa Silvestri present bold new conceptualisations of police leadership. Drawing on empirical research in criminology, sociology and leadership studies, they present a thoughtful critique of the nature and practice of leadership in contemporary policing. The book: - Critically explores the identities of leaders and their positions within wider organisational …
The role of (in)visibility in hate crime targeting transgender people
This article explores incidents of hate crime targeted at transgender people. Drawing on in-depth interview data, it challenges and extends established theorisations of the significance of ‘difference’ and ‘vulnerability’ in relation to victimisation. It introduces and emphasises the idea of ‘visibility’ as a more useful lens through which to understand the systematic harm caused by hate crime victimisation. Through an analysis of complex identit…
Disrupting the “Heroic” Male Within Policing
This article drives forward a more critical insight into the position of women within policing. In focusing on women as police leaders, it problematizes taken for granted representations of gender and proposes an alternative reading of their experiences. Drawing on theoretical work on gendered organizations, the article argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the cultural and structural conditions that enable the “heroic male” to emerge…
Implications of police occupational culture in discriminatory experiences of senior women in police forces in England and Wales
Perceptions of police occupational culture were measured in a sample of senior women in policing (N = 169) through an online survey conducted late 2017/early 2018 to explore the occurrence of sexual harassment and sex discrimination. Negative aspects of ‘cop’ culture are associated with greater rates of harassing and discriminatory experiences. Social Identity Theory (SIT) examined the salience of role, gender and seniority as factors relevant to…
Police Culture and Gender
The ‘cult of masculinity’ has received much attention as a persistent and negative feature of police culture, with its impacts repeatedly being drawn upon to make sense of women’s lack of progression and representation within policing. This article argues that such analyses remain locked into overly simplistic and reductionist accounts of how women and men experience gender within policing. In revisiting the ‘cult of masculinity’, this article as…
Accountability of policing
Composed of 11 chapters from an impressive line-up of established and well-respected scholars in the field, Lister and Rowe’s (2015) edited collection on the Accountability of policing is a much we
Reflections on a 'Depressing Inevitability
[No abstract]
Gender and Crime
Since the late 1960s sociology, in common with other social sciences, has been affected by a major change in its assumptions about the world: for the first time, gender is on the agenda. A whole new genre of sociological literature now exists which explores gender divisions in society and the gender aspects of social institutions as diverse as the family (Barrett and Macintosh, 1982), state welfare (Ungerson, 1985), education (Deem, 1978), and po…
Doing” Police Leadership
In recent years, women and leaders have increasingly been identified as key players in the project of achieving organizational change in policing. This article provides a conceptual bridge between these emerging discourses through an exploration of way in which women in police leadership are carrying out their roles. Findings from interviews carried out with senior policewomen suggest that they are adopting different approaches to leadership than…
Doing” Police Leadership
In recent years, women and leaders have increasingly been identified as key players in the project of achieving organizational change in policing. This article provides a conceptual bridge between these emerging discourses through an exploration of way in which women in police leadership are carrying out their roles. Findings from interviews carried out with senior policewomen suggest that they are adopting different approaches to leadership than…
Implications of police occupational culture in discriminatory experiences of senior women in police forces in England and Wales
Perceptions of police occupational culture were measured in a sample of senior women in policing (N = 169) through an online survey conducted late 2017/early 2018 to explore the occurrence of sexual harassment and sex discrimination. Negative aspects of ‘cop’ culture are associated with greater rates of harassing and discriminatory experiences. Social Identity Theory (SIT) examined the salience of role, gender and seniority as factors relevant to…
Disrupting the “Heroic” Male Within Policing
This article drives forward a more critical insight into the position of women within policing. In focusing on women as police leaders, it problematizes taken for granted representations of gender and proposes an alternative reading of their experiences. Drawing on theoretical work on gendered organizations, the article argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the cultural and structural conditions that enable the “heroic male” to emerge…
Accountability of policing
Composed of 11 chapters from an impressive line-up of established and well-respected scholars in the field, Lister and Rowe’s (2015) edited collection on the Accountability of policing is a much we
Reflections on a 'Depressing Inevitability
[No abstract]
The role of (in)visibility in hate crime targeting transgender people
This article explores incidents of hate crime targeted at transgender people. Drawing on in-depth interview data, it challenges and extends established theorisations of the significance of ‘difference’ and ‘vulnerability’ in relation to victimisation. It introduces and emphasises the idea of ‘visibility’ as a more useful lens through which to understand the systematic harm caused by hate crime victimisation. Through an analysis of complex identit…
Doing” Police Leadership
In recent years, women and leaders have increasingly been identified as key players in the project of achieving organizational change in policing. This article provides a conceptual bridge between these emerging discourses through an exploration of way in which women in police leadership are carrying out their roles. Findings from interviews carried out with senior policewomen suggest that they are adopting different approaches to leadership than…
Gender and Crime
Since the late 1960s sociology, in common with other social sciences, has been affected by a major change in its assumptions about the world: for the first time, gender is on the agenda. A whole new genre of sociological literature now exists which explores gender divisions in society and the gender aspects of social institutions as diverse as the family (Barrett and Macintosh, 1982), state welfare (Ungerson, 1985), education (Deem, 1978), and po…
Reflections on a 'Depressing Inevitability
[No abstract]
Accountability of policing
Composed of 11 chapters from an impressive line-up of established and well-respected scholars in the field, Lister and Rowe’s (2015) edited collection on the Accountability of policing is a much we
Police Culture and Gender
The ‘cult of masculinity’ has received much attention as a persistent and negative feature of police culture, with its impacts repeatedly being drawn upon to make sense of women’s lack of progression and representation within policing. This article argues that such analyses remain locked into overly simplistic and reductionist accounts of how women and men experience gender within policing. In revisiting the ‘cult of masculinity’, this article as…
Disrupting the “Heroic” Male Within Policing
This article drives forward a more critical insight into the position of women within policing. In focusing on women as police leaders, it problematizes taken for granted representations of gender and proposes an alternative reading of their experiences. Drawing on theoretical work on gendered organizations, the article argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the cultural and structural conditions that enable the “heroic male” to emerge…
Implications of police occupational culture in discriminatory experiences of senior women in police forces in England and Wales
Perceptions of police occupational culture were measured in a sample of senior women in policing (N = 169) through an online survey conducted late 2017/early 2018 to explore the occurrence of sexual harassment and sex discrimination. Negative aspects of ‘cop’ culture are associated with greater rates of harassing and discriminatory experiences. Social Identity Theory (SIT) examined the salience of role, gender and seniority as factors relevant to…
A police service in transformation
This paper presents an overview of current trends besetting the police service in England and Wales, including the reduction of resources through austerity pressures, changing patterns of crime such as rises in cyber-related offences, greater victim focus, the introduction of graduate entry and changes in political accountability through the newly elected Police and Crime Commissioners. Secondary analysis of data enabled an assessment of the degr…
Critical Perspectives on Police Leadership
In a critical analysis of conventional understanding, leading authors Claire Davis and Marisa Silvestri present bold new conceptualisations of police leadership. Drawing on empirical research in criminology, sociology and leadership studies, they present a thoughtful critique of the nature and practice of leadership in contemporary policing. The book: - Critically explores the identities of leaders and their positions within wider organisational …
The role of (in)visibility in hate crime targeting transgender people
This article explores incidents of hate crime targeted at transgender people. Drawing on in-depth interview data, it challenges and extends established theorisations of the significance of ‘difference’ and ‘vulnerability’ in relation to victimisation. It introduces and emphasises the idea of ‘visibility’ as a more useful lens through which to understand the systematic harm caused by hate crime victimisation. Through an analysis of complex identit…
Policewomen’s perceptions of occupational culture in the changing policing environment of England and Wales
Liminality is the transitional phase of a rite of passage when individuals no longer hold to their traditions but have yet to transition to a new status. Utilising cultural characterisations reported by a sample of policewomen ( N = 127) from England and Wales, a hierarchical cluster analysis revealed empirical demonstration of a traditional preliminal condition, a transforming postliminal state and a liminal betwixt and between period, which are…
Women police leaders in Europe
This article provides rich and unique insights into the experiences of women police leaders across seven European regions. Drawing on interview data, it presents accounts of women’s experiences in policing and identifies informal and formal barriers to their advancement in European police organizations. Women police leaders report high levels of gender discrimination, obstruction and prejudice over the course of their careers. We argue that there…
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy
Sociology (13 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works)