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Behind the Badge: How Perceptions of Women Police Officers Shape the Impact of All-Women Police Stations in India

Authors:
Amisha Sharma

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Amisha Sharma
Greenwood High International School GCSE

MLA 8
Sharma, Amisha. "Behind the Badge: How Perceptions of Women Police Officers Shape the Impact of All-Women Police Stations in India." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 9, no. 12, Dec. 2024, pp. 6191-6211, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i12.035. Accessed Dec. 2024.
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Sharma, A. (2024, December). Behind the Badge: How Perceptions of Women Police Officers Shape the Impact of All-Women Police Stations in India. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 9(12), 6191-6211. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i12.035
Chicago
Sharma, Amisha. "Behind the Badge: How Perceptions of Women Police Officers Shape the Impact of All-Women Police Stations in India." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 9, no. 12 (December 2024), 6191-6211. Accessed December, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i12.035.

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ABSTRACT:
This paper aims to explore how the perception of women police officers, fueled by gender norms, social stigma, and the patriarchal setting in India, impacts the effectiveness of all- women police stations (AWPS) in India. The Loksabha’s assumption that this intervention will automatically lead to an increase in police legitimacy has proven to be untrue, with AWPSs failing to have a major impact on the ground level, especially in changing the views of individuals. Furthermore, AWPSs have caused an increase in reporting of gendered crimes, but no increase in arrests or charges relating to these crimes. This points to a more systematic issue in the working of these stations, with the hypermasculine sub-culture in the police force suppressing these charges and arrests from being made by dismissing gendered crimes. Additionally, policewomen’s dissatisfaction with being assigned only gendered cases compounds the problem, by creating a lack of motivation in their work, and leading to them not valuing the work they are doing, or believing they are creating an impact.

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