Blue First and Foremost
Female Descriptive Representation, Rape, and the Justice Gap
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6319492 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Gunderson (0000-0002-6744-9588, Emory University), Laura Huber (0000-0001-8141-793X, Emory University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-43 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592722000974 |
| OpenAlex | W4280518514 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 59 |
The degree to which female political actors influence policy is hotly debated in political science. However, relatively little research considers how women’s representation in the police influences policing outcomes. We argue that increasing women’s representation should be associated with increases in rape report rates but should not be associated with changes in rape arrest rates. We expect public perceptions of female police to affect victims’ willingness to report and cooperate with the police, but the masculine, hierarchical, and complex nature of police investigations of rape will make it difficult for those increases in reporting to translate into increases in arrests for those crimes. We leverage unique police administrative data from 1987 to 2016 and find that although women’s representation is associated with increased rape report rates, there is no relationship with rape arrest rates, highlighting an important justice gap. Our article has implications not only for the study of female representation and representative bureaucracy but also provides insights into how descriptive representation may be limited by institutional culture, norms, practices, and procedures
Affect (linguistics · Bureaucracy · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Leverage (statistics · Perception · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism
Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections
Gender Stereotypes across Electoral Contexts
Fair Cop
Women in Control?
Do Female Officers Improve Law Enforcement Quality? Effects on Crime Reporting and Domestic Violence
The role of officer race and gender in police-civilian interactions in Chicago
Women in Policing and Legitimacy
Domestic Violence and Police Response in a Pro-Arrest Jurisdiction
Gender Differences in Officers' Perceptions and Decisions About Domestic Violence Cases
The Prevalence of Female Representation in Supervisory and Management Positions in American Law Enforcement
Gender Trouble
Race, Place, and Context
Accessing justice
Who Dreams of Badges? Gendered Self-Concept and Policing Career Aspirations
Women in Policing and the Response to Rape
MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism
The Impact of Representative Bureaucracies
Breaking and entering
Officer force versus suspect resistance
Female officers and the ethic of care
Policing domestic violence
Gender differences in police officers' attitudes
Who are the complaint-prone officers
Use of force by female police officers
Public Officials and a “Private” Matter
Gender, Representative Bureaucracy, and Law Enforcement
Looking Different, Acting Different
Representative Bureaucracy, Gender, and Policing
Democracy and the Public Service
What It Takes to Win
Do Officer-Involved Shootings Reduce Citizen Contact with Government
Black Mayors and Police Policies
Shifting Standards
Rethinking Women's Substantive Representation
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Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce
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The Impact of Demographic Representation on Absences and Suspensions
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Race, Bureaucracy, and Symbolic Representation
Representative Bureaucracy in Policing
Representative Bureaucracy, Race, and Policing
Restoring trust in the police
Addressing Violence Against Women
The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect
Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops
Militarization and Perceptions of Law Enforcement in the Developing World
Restoring Confidence in Post-Conflict Security Sectors
Police Are Our Government
International Gender Balancing Reforms in Postconflict Countries
Police occupational culture
Representative Bureaucracy
Lipstick and Logarithms
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |