The factors associated with the policing of offensive language
A qualitative study of three Sydney Local Area Commands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15310285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Trollip (UNSW Sydney), Luke Mcnamara (0000-0002-8479-6469, UNSW Sydney), Helen Gibbon (UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 493-512 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Issues in Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1034-5329 • E-ISSN: 2206-9542 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10345329.2019.1639591 |
| OpenAlex | W2965909966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article makes an original contribution to scholarship and the ongoing debate about the merits (or otherwise) of retaining the crime of offensive language in New South Wales – and equivalent offences around Australia. We present and discuss the findings of a qualitative study of how police utilised s 4A of the Summary Offences Act 1988 (NSW) in three Sydney Local Area Commands during 2016. We identify the factors most commonly associated with a police decision to characterise a person’s language as criminally offensive and take action, either by laying a criminal charge or issuing a penalty notice. Offensive language laws are typically justified as a necessary device for ensuring that members of the community are protected from being caused ‘offence’ as a result of the use of inappropriate language in public places. However, our research demonstrates that offensive language laws more commonly operate as a police power – to control persons exhibiting ‘undesirable’ or ‘nuisance’ behaviour in public places and to exercise power over persons who demonstrate a lack of deference to the authority of the police
Criminology · Deference · Notice · Offensive · Operations research · Political science · Power (physics · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Scholarship · Sociology · Engineering · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
Iterative categorization (IC)
The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Criminology
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It's all about the Benjamins’
Policing Disadvantage
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Thematic Analysis
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |