Strangers in a strange land: police perceptions of working in discrete Indigenous communities in Queensland, Australia
| Autor: | John Scott, Zoe Staines, Anna Dwyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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White (horse)
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Context (language use) Criminology Space (commercial competition) Racism Indigenous Work (electrical) Perception 050501 criminology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Law Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050104 developmental & child psychology 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Police Practice and Research. 22:208-224 |
| ISSN: | 1477-271X 1561-4263 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15614263.2020.1759058 |
| Popis: | This paper examines the perceptions of police who work in Queensland’s discrete Indigenous communities. Given the strong relationship between policing practices and the environments in which police work, we examine how ‘place’ and ‘space’ – particularly the environmental context of Queensland’s discrete Indigenous communities – can inform policing. Interviews with fifteen police officers who work in Indigenous communities across Queensland found that police felt like strangers in Indigenous communities; they were acutely aware of their status as a (predominantly) white minority in a (predominantly) non-white space, which had implications for their policing practices. This also contributed to their perceptions of discrete Indigenous communities as strange lands – spaces in which their own (settler) social norms did not necessarily apply, and within which the work of policing had to be adjusted and reshaped. Overall, police found it difficult to reconcile their experiences of policing in discrete Indigenous communities with their experiences of policing elsewhere in Australia. In many ways, they were not trained nor prepared for policing in these distinct contexts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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