Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women

Purpose Even though evidence has broadly confirmed that public attitudes toward intervention shape the decision-making process when dealing with IPVAW events, rather less is known about what determines the police decision-making process. Research support that police attitudes toward intervention in...

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Autores: Serrano-Montilla, Celia, Garrido-Macías, Marta, Sáez-Díaz, Javier, Sáez, Gemma
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Alicante (UA)
Repositorio:RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante
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Palavra-chave:Intimate partner violence against women
IPVAW myths, perceived severity
Police officers
Attitudes toward intervention
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spelling Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against WomenSerrano-Montilla, CeliaGarrido-Macías, MartaSáez-Díaz, JavierSáez, GemmaIntimate partner violence against womenIPVAW myths, perceived severityPolice officersAttitudes toward interventionPurpose Even though evidence has broadly confirmed that public attitudes toward intervention shape the decision-making process when dealing with IPVAW events, rather less is known about what determines the police decision-making process. Research support that police attitudes toward intervention in IPVAW explain differences when police officers response to IPVAW events. This research analyzes the combined role of IPVAW myths, perceived severity, and IPVAW training in reactive (tolerance for IPVAW and minimal police involvement) and proactive (important police task and pro-arrest) police attitudes toward intervention in gender violence. Methods Drawing from snowball sampling, we collected responses of 211 Spanish police officers via online subject-recruitment platform. Results The main findings of our study confirmed that IPVAW myths lead to less proactive attitudes toward intervention both directly and through a reduction in the perceived severity of IPVAW. Importantly, we found a moderating role of IPVAW training, suggesting that the endorsement of IPVAW myths leads to less proactive responses, but only for untrained police officers. Conclusions Our findings suggest the importance of IPVAW training on police proactive attitudes toward intervention via IPVAW myths instead of perceived severity. Police training programs to both novice and experienced officers should be focused on confronting IPVAW myths in order to improve police perception, evaluation and involvement in gender violence events.Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.Springer NatureUniversidad de Alicante. Departamento de Comunicación y Psicología SocialIntervención Psicosocial con Familias y Menores (IPSIFAM)2023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10045/136452reponame:RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicanteinstname:Universidad de Alicante (UA)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00605-8© The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:rua.ua.es:10045/1364522025-07-19T15:32:42Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
title Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
spellingShingle Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
Serrano-Montilla, Celia
Intimate partner violence against women
IPVAW myths, perceived severity
Police officers
Attitudes toward intervention
title_short Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
title_full Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
title_fullStr Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
title_full_unstemmed Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
title_sort Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Serrano-Montilla, Celia
Garrido-Macías, Marta
Sáez-Díaz, Javier
Sáez, Gemma
author Serrano-Montilla, Celia
author_facet Serrano-Montilla, Celia
Garrido-Macías, Marta
Sáez-Díaz, Javier
Sáez, Gemma
author_role author
author2 Garrido-Macías, Marta
Sáez-Díaz, Javier
Sáez, Gemma
author2_role author
author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Comunicación y Psicología Social
Intervención Psicosocial con Familias y Menores (IPSIFAM)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Intimate partner violence against women
IPVAW myths, perceived severity
Police officers
Attitudes toward intervention
topic Intimate partner violence against women
IPVAW myths, perceived severity
Police officers
Attitudes toward intervention
description Purpose Even though evidence has broadly confirmed that public attitudes toward intervention shape the decision-making process when dealing with IPVAW events, rather less is known about what determines the police decision-making process. Research support that police attitudes toward intervention in IPVAW explain differences when police officers response to IPVAW events. This research analyzes the combined role of IPVAW myths, perceived severity, and IPVAW training in reactive (tolerance for IPVAW and minimal police involvement) and proactive (important police task and pro-arrest) police attitudes toward intervention in gender violence. Methods Drawing from snowball sampling, we collected responses of 211 Spanish police officers via online subject-recruitment platform. Results The main findings of our study confirmed that IPVAW myths lead to less proactive attitudes toward intervention both directly and through a reduction in the perceived severity of IPVAW. Importantly, we found a moderating role of IPVAW training, suggesting that the endorsement of IPVAW myths leads to less proactive responses, but only for untrained police officers. Conclusions Our findings suggest the importance of IPVAW training on police proactive attitudes toward intervention via IPVAW myths instead of perceived severity. Police training programs to both novice and experienced officers should be focused on confronting IPVAW myths in order to improve police perception, evaluation and involvement in gender violence events.
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