Danielle Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5414546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5094-5545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plural Policing and Access to Justice in Pacific Small Island Developing States
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) present unique challenges and opportunities for law enforcement. Characteristics such as strong communal ties, social and cultural norms, limited state visibility, and strained resources impact the interpretation and application of state laws. At the same time, local legitimacy is often found in community-oriented approaches to policing and tailored law enforcement responses through parallel policing systems.…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Plural Policing in the Global South
The articles in this Special Issue explore case studies from Global South contexts to show how plural policing is negotiated and navigated. They highlight variances in law-and-order maintenance arrangements, primarily in contexts where state policing is recognized as an adapted colonial import that exists alongside local and indigenous governance mechanisms, which at times exist in parallel or in conflict with each other. Collectively, the articl…
Navigating policing and work-life balance in the South Pacific
Policing in the South Pacific is influenced by a myriad of factors including cultural norms, historical legacies, socio-economic disparities, and geopolitical dynamics. Against this backdrop, law enforcement officers face multifaceted challenges in reconciling the demands of their profession with personal and familial obligations. This article discusses the challenges faced by police officers as they attempt to balance their professional and pers…
The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law
This article argues that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a queer document. The Convention tackles the issues of able-bodiedness, normalcy, intersectionality, and the inclusion of lived experience and voices of persons with disabilities—issues residing at the core of postmodernist movements. The CRPD omits a distinction between positive and negative obligations on States to implement human rights provisions. It …
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu
Global influences on policing are not a recent development. The legacy of colonisation is evident in contemporary police organisations and justice systems in the Pacific Islands, which are exposed to globalisation through a range of means. Pacific Island countries are also influenced by traditional sources of authority, such as customary chiefly systems and religious leadership, that shape and contribute to justice and policing in important and n…
“Staka Woman Tumas”
In countries emerging out of conflict, state-building initiatives tend to prioritize gender-balancing. Post-conflict police reform in the Solomon Islands aligned with this set standard, as capacity-building efforts within the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) prioritized the empowerment, inclusion, and promotion of women within the force. Through the use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) this study investigated, identifie…
Crime and Governance in the Global South
This article considers the relationship between crime and governance on the peripheries of the Global North. It draws on examples from across the Global South to show how conceptualizations of crimes are impacted by history, politics, and socio-economic contexts and how crime is influenced by, and in turn influences, governance practices. The review centers on four arguments: Western ideologies and epistemologies are inadequate for conceptualizin…
Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
Introduction to the Special Issue—Policing in Pacific Island Countries and Territories
Policing and Religion in Tuvalu
Although religious institutions are an important agent of non-state policing, especially in the Global South, there is a limited understanding of the relationship between religion and policing. The Pacific presents an ideal context in which to examine the relationship between religious and policing institutions in Christian majority postcolonial societies. Moreover, state and religious institutions in the Pacific Island States are currently being…
Community Satisfaction With Policing on Guam
Guam is a Pacific Island in Micronesia with a complex colonial history. Strategically located, Guam is an unincorporated territory of the United States and critical military asset. Policing on Guam is influenced by external stakeholders and budgetary limitations. Recently, a community policing model was introduced to better meet community needs and expectations. This study explored the relevance of predictors of satisfaction with police service p…
Legitimizing policing practices
In an attempt to better meet the needs of the communities, the Tuvalu Police Service (TPS) commissioned a survey to investigate stakeholder perceptions of police service provision across its nine islands. This paper presents the findings of the survey and examines the responses of community residents (N = 1896) to determine public perceptions of police trustworthiness, police effectiveness and the relationship between the TPS and the community. T…
Women and policing in the South Pacific
Scholars have been critical of the gender-biased nature of policing, and its effects on service delivery. They highlight how law enforcement is male-dominated, and how this impacts negatively on women as offenders and victims of crime. Such criticisms have mobilised international and national institutional support for more gender equitable representation in policing agencies. A growing body of research has addressed the impact of increasing the n…
Police as knowledge brokers and keepers of the peace
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face externally driven changes, including an international human rights agenda. Tuvalu was the first PIC to develop a National Action Plan on human rights, with a focus on improving the circumstances for women, children, and people with disabilities. Achieving these objectives requires a whole-of-government approach and a comprehensive process of community consultation. This study, undertaken at the request of the …
Self-evaluating performance
Studies on policing in the Global South rarely discuss police self-evaluation of performance. Furthermore, internal performance assessments usually reflect the perspectives of senior management with little to no input from frontline officers. This paper seeks to present a more inclusive view of police performance as it presents the findings of a stakeholder perceptions survey commissioned by the Tuvalu Police Service (TPS) to examine police perce…
Policing in Trinidad & Tobago
This study examined duty-related stress among police officers in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). Qualitative interview data collected from 12 male senior police officers were analyzed for themes regarding experiences with stressors and emotional and behavioral reactions to stress. The officers indicated that obstacles to effective policing – the power and resources of offenders, officers’ lack of resources and support, and the threat of corruption – a…
Criminals, Taliban, Terrorists, Murderers”
(2020). “Criminals, Taliban, Terrorists, Murderers”. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories: Culture and Representation, pp. 281-300
Police perceptions of residents in a high-crime area in Trinidad and Tobago
This article examines police perceptions of residents of a marginalized community in Trinidad and Tobago. The discourses of 40 members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service are examined to determine how they define residents of the community and situate them within specific interactive contexts. Results show that the officers typically have extremely negative views of the community and its residents, which amplify their perceptions of policin…
The interface between exercise of state power and personal powerlessness
Police legitimacy is crucial to the maintenance of law and order in any society. In communities marred by high instances of societal manifestations of dysfunction, tenuous legislative frameworks, poradic implementation, and dismantling of crime fighting strategies, there is greater emphasis placed on quick-fix crime fighting solutions and policing initiatives. The focus is placed primarily on what police officers are mandated to do as opposed to …
Police chiefs in the UK
‘Hotspot policing’
The ‘Partial State of Emergency’ implemented in Trinidad and Tobago in August 2011, as well as media broadcasts on the crime situation, has brought to the forefront the high degree of interface between police officers and civilians within the identified ‘hotspot communities’. The assumed realities of these individuals were communicated in such a manner which led to the stereotyping of citizens as marginalized victims and police officers as ‘disre…
The power of community branding
The paper is a section of a larger research project examining the manifestations of power in the labels, stigmas and stereotypes imbued in the discourses of police officers and civilians in a suburban, low-income community in northern Trinidad. The larger study scrutinizes the labels used by police and civilian to categorize each other while attempting to negotiate power during their interactions. Within this paper, I examine the formal labels as…
Defining power margins
The article is part of a continuing research project on power manifestations in the discourses of police officers and civilians from a specific marginalized community in Trinidad and Tobago. The larger research draws on multidisciplinary knowledge frameworks to assist in the description and explanation of communicative negotiations at the community level. This paper looks specifically at describing power within the context of police and civilian …
Police perceptions of residents in a high-crime area in Trinidad and Tobago
This article examines police perceptions of residents of a marginalized community in Trinidad and Tobago. The discourses of 40 members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service are examined to determine how they define residents of the community and situate them within specific interactive contexts. Results show that the officers typically have extremely negative views of the community and its residents, which amplify their perceptions of policin…
Crime and Governance in the Global South
This article considers the relationship between crime and governance on the peripheries of the Global North. It draws on examples from across the Global South to show how conceptualizations of crimes are impacted by history, politics, and socio-economic contexts and how crime is influenced by, and in turn influences, governance practices. The review centers on four arguments: Western ideologies and epistemologies are inadequate for conceptualizin…
Self-evaluating performance
Studies on policing in the Global South rarely discuss police self-evaluation of performance. Furthermore, internal performance assessments usually reflect the perspectives of senior management with little to no input from frontline officers. This paper seeks to present a more inclusive view of police performance as it presents the findings of a stakeholder perceptions survey commissioned by the Tuvalu Police Service (TPS) to examine police perce…
The power of community branding
The paper is a section of a larger research project examining the manifestations of power in the labels, stigmas and stereotypes imbued in the discourses of police officers and civilians in a suburban, low-income community in northern Trinidad. The larger study scrutinizes the labels used by police and civilian to categorize each other while attempting to negotiate power during their interactions. Within this paper, I examine the formal labels as…
Defining power margins
The article is part of a continuing research project on power manifestations in the discourses of police officers and civilians from a specific marginalized community in Trinidad and Tobago. The larger research draws on multidisciplinary knowledge frameworks to assist in the description and explanation of communicative negotiations at the community level. This paper looks specifically at describing power within the context of police and civilian …
The power of community branding
The paper is a section of a larger research project examining the manifestations of power in the labels, stigmas and stereotypes imbued in the discourses of police officers and civilians in a suburban, low-income community in northern Trinidad. The larger study scrutinizes the labels used by police and civilian to categorize each other while attempting to negotiate power during their interactions. Within this paper, I examine the formal labels as…
‘Hotspot policing’
The ‘Partial State of Emergency’ implemented in Trinidad and Tobago in August 2011, as well as media broadcasts on the crime situation, has brought to the forefront the high degree of interface between police officers and civilians within the identified ‘hotspot communities’. The assumed realities of these individuals were communicated in such a manner which led to the stereotyping of citizens as marginalized victims and police officers as ‘disre…
The interface between exercise of state power and personal powerlessness
Police legitimacy is crucial to the maintenance of law and order in any society. In communities marred by high instances of societal manifestations of dysfunction, tenuous legislative frameworks, poradic implementation, and dismantling of crime fighting strategies, there is greater emphasis placed on quick-fix crime fighting solutions and policing initiatives. The focus is placed primarily on what police officers are mandated to do as opposed to …
Police chiefs in the UK
Police perceptions of residents in a high-crime area in Trinidad and Tobago
This article examines police perceptions of residents of a marginalized community in Trinidad and Tobago. The discourses of 40 members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service are examined to determine how they define residents of the community and situate them within specific interactive contexts. Results show that the officers typically have extremely negative views of the community and its residents, which amplify their perceptions of policin…
Policing in Trinidad & Tobago
This study examined duty-related stress among police officers in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). Qualitative interview data collected from 12 male senior police officers were analyzed for themes regarding experiences with stressors and emotional and behavioral reactions to stress. The officers indicated that obstacles to effective policing – the power and resources of offenders, officers’ lack of resources and support, and the threat of corruption – a…
Criminals, Taliban, Terrorists, Murderers”
(2020). “Criminals, Taliban, Terrorists, Murderers”. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories: Culture and Representation, pp. 281-300
Legitimizing policing practices
In an attempt to better meet the needs of the communities, the Tuvalu Police Service (TPS) commissioned a survey to investigate stakeholder perceptions of police service provision across its nine islands. This paper presents the findings of the survey and examines the responses of community residents (N = 1896) to determine public perceptions of police trustworthiness, police effectiveness and the relationship between the TPS and the community. T…
Women and policing in the South Pacific
Scholars have been critical of the gender-biased nature of policing, and its effects on service delivery. They highlight how law enforcement is male-dominated, and how this impacts negatively on women as offenders and victims of crime. Such criticisms have mobilised international and national institutional support for more gender equitable representation in policing agencies. A growing body of research has addressed the impact of increasing the n…
Police as knowledge brokers and keepers of the peace
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face externally driven changes, including an international human rights agenda. Tuvalu was the first PIC to develop a National Action Plan on human rights, with a focus on improving the circumstances for women, children, and people with disabilities. Achieving these objectives requires a whole-of-government approach and a comprehensive process of community consultation. This study, undertaken at the request of the …
Self-evaluating performance
Studies on policing in the Global South rarely discuss police self-evaluation of performance. Furthermore, internal performance assessments usually reflect the perspectives of senior management with little to no input from frontline officers. This paper seeks to present a more inclusive view of police performance as it presents the findings of a stakeholder perceptions survey commissioned by the Tuvalu Police Service (TPS) to examine police perce…
Introduction to the Special Issue—Policing in Pacific Island Countries and Territories
Policing and Religion in Tuvalu
Although religious institutions are an important agent of non-state policing, especially in the Global South, there is a limited understanding of the relationship between religion and policing. The Pacific presents an ideal context in which to examine the relationship between religious and policing institutions in Christian majority postcolonial societies. Moreover, state and religious institutions in the Pacific Island States are currently being…
Community Satisfaction With Policing on Guam
Guam is a Pacific Island in Micronesia with a complex colonial history. Strategically located, Guam is an unincorporated territory of the United States and critical military asset. Policing on Guam is influenced by external stakeholders and budgetary limitations. Recently, a community policing model was introduced to better meet community needs and expectations. This study explored the relevance of predictors of satisfaction with police service p…
Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
“Staka Woman Tumas”
In countries emerging out of conflict, state-building initiatives tend to prioritize gender-balancing. Post-conflict police reform in the Solomon Islands aligned with this set standard, as capacity-building efforts within the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) prioritized the empowerment, inclusion, and promotion of women within the force. Through the use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) this study investigated, identifie…
Crime and Governance in the Global South
This article considers the relationship between crime and governance on the peripheries of the Global North. It draws on examples from across the Global South to show how conceptualizations of crimes are impacted by history, politics, and socio-economic contexts and how crime is influenced by, and in turn influences, governance practices. The review centers on four arguments: Western ideologies and epistemologies are inadequate for conceptualizin…
Navigating policing and work-life balance in the South Pacific
Policing in the South Pacific is influenced by a myriad of factors including cultural norms, historical legacies, socio-economic disparities, and geopolitical dynamics. Against this backdrop, law enforcement officers face multifaceted challenges in reconciling the demands of their profession with personal and familial obligations. This article discusses the challenges faced by police officers as they attempt to balance their professional and pers…
The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law
This article argues that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a queer document. The Convention tackles the issues of able-bodiedness, normalcy, intersectionality, and the inclusion of lived experience and voices of persons with disabilities—issues residing at the core of postmodernist movements. The CRPD omits a distinction between positive and negative obligations on States to implement human rights provisions. It …
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu
Global influences on policing are not a recent development. The legacy of colonisation is evident in contemporary police organisations and justice systems in the Pacific Islands, which are exposed to globalisation through a range of means. Pacific Island countries are also influenced by traditional sources of authority, such as customary chiefly systems and religious leadership, that shape and contribute to justice and policing in important and n…
Plural Policing and Access to Justice in Pacific Small Island Developing States
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) present unique challenges and opportunities for law enforcement. Characteristics such as strong communal ties, social and cultural norms, limited state visibility, and strained resources impact the interpretation and application of state laws. At the same time, local legitimacy is often found in community-oriented approaches to policing and tailored law enforcement responses through parallel policing systems.…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Plural Policing in the Global South
The articles in this Special Issue explore case studies from Global South contexts to show how plural policing is negotiated and navigated. They highlight variances in law-and-order maintenance arrangements, primarily in contexts where state policing is recognized as an adapted colonial import that exists alongside local and indigenous governance mechanisms, which at times exist in parallel or in conflict with each other. Collectively, the articl…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (14 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Community policing (6 works)