Doctoral Dissertation Research: Policing Citizenship in the United States: Violence and Differential Access to Public Space

这个博士论文研究项目探讨了性别动态如何引导国家对家庭私人空间内发生的暴力行为的公共反应。公共空间和私人空间的空间区别对于亲密伴侣暴力的概念化以及作为公共安全和公民保护事项的警务做法至关重要。该项目的目标是研究公共空间与公民身份之间的联系，国家及其在满足公民安全需求方面的作用，以及受害者在这一过程中的经历。三个关键问题指导这项研究：1）性别动态如何影响警务战略对亲密伴侣暴力？2)这种警务的性别化如何影响与公共空间和安全有关的公民经验和实践？3)警务战略的性别化如何影响妇女在特定地点和时间作为公民的经历？ 虽然关于恐怖主义和暴力的关键学术最近一直在解决警务的空间性，但这些文献中没有对更地方规模的警务性别层面的理解。 这项研究特别侧重于对亲密伴侣暴力行为的警务工作，将通过对影响妇女进入公共空间和公民权利的警务战略的性别和空间动态提供新的见解来解决这一差距。 此外，该项目还将促进关于治安和治理、私人空间和治安以及治安和排斥的学术辩论。最后，本研究通过研究国家与受害者之间的关系，美国境内的警务实践以及这些过程对受害者生活经历的影响，促进了对政治进程如何影响妇女在国家内作为公民地位的理解。这项研究将通过在宾夕法尼亚州中部的定性研究进行。 除了通过地理和女权主义的学术期刊进行学术传播外，这项研究的结果将以非学术社区可以访问的格式进行传播，因为它们涉及与社会相关的社区警务战略。 项目成果将在公共研讨会上介绍，并将在提交地方和州社区组织以及全国反对家庭暴力联盟的报告中提供，以便它们能够对有关亲密伴侣暴力的决策和警务做法产生影响。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，使有前途的学生能够建立一个独立的研究生涯，同时提供及时的研究，以解决亲密伴侣暴力问题。

This doctoral dissertation research project examines how gender dynamics guide the state's public response to violence that occurs within the private space of the home. The spatial distinction of public and private space is critical to the conceptualization of intimate partner violence as well as to policing practices as a matter of public security and citizen protections. The project's objective is to study the connections between public space and citizenship, the state and its role in addressing the security needs of its citizens as well as the experiences of victims in this process. Three key questions guide this research: 1) How do gendered dynamics affect policing strategies regarding intimate partner violence? 2) How does the gendering of this policing affect the experience and practice of citizenship in relation to public space and security? 3) How does the gendering of policing strategies affect women's experience as citizens in particular places and times? While critical scholarship on terrorism and violence have recently been addressing the spatiality of policing, absent from this literature is an understanding of the gendered dimensions of policing at a more local scale. With a specific focus on the policing of intimate partner violence, this research will address this gap by providing new insights into the gendered and spatial dynamics of policing strategies that affect women's access to public space and citizenship rights. Further, this project will contribute to scholarly debates on policing and governance, private space and policing, and policing and exclusion. Lastly, this research advances understandings of how political processes affect women's position as citizens within the state by examining the current relationship between the state and victims, policing practices within the US and the impact of these processes on the lived experiences of victims. This research will be conducted via a qualitative study in central Pennsylvania. In addition to academic dissemination via geographic and feminist-based scholarly journals, results from this research will be disseminated in formats accessible to non-academic communities as they address socially-relevant community policing strategies. Project results will be presented in public symposia and results will be made available in reports to local and state community organizations as well as the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in such a way that they will be able to make on an impact on policy-making and policing practice regarding intimate partner violence. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career while providing timely research to address the issue of intimate partner violence.