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2010

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Demir, Murat Cem

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STUDY OF PUBLIC IMAGERY OF POLICE WORK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GENDER: THE CASE OF ANKARA Demir, Murat Cem Ph.D., Department of Sociology Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kayhan Mutlu February 2010, 245 pages Police – public relations and image of the police are fields of study that are dealt with more and more recently in the disciplines of criminology and sociology. These subjects are also partially the matter of this study. The purpose of our study is to find out how the image of the police is influenced by the gender; that is what kind of a role the gender plays in the police – society relations. In brief, this study seeks answers for the questions such as whether the level of relationship that the people establishes with the female police officers and male officers is the same; whether the perception of the public changes towards female and male police officers; and the role of the gender in the formation of such relation, in other words, whether men and women have a different perception of the police officers in general terms and whether they perceive the female and male police officers in different way in specific terms by means of surveys and questionnaires. When the data from the questionnaire conducted with 313 respondents in the sample of Ankara and the information obtained from the interview data carried out with 16 people in this study are interpreted, it has been found out that the police and public relationship is never static and routine and uniform; on the contrary this relationship is rather dynamic and heterogeneous. In short, the police – public relation is fit on a complex equation rather than a simple one. One of the most notable reasons of this complexity lies at the identities of the actors; that means the heterogeneity of the identities. Gender is a significant variable determining (elaborating) the relation of the police – public and constitutes an important part of the identity. In this study, the gender has the role and task of both independent variable, and dependent variable representing the perception of female and male police officer since when we have a look with the gender axis, we happen to see the cross equation in the police – public relation: male police officer – female police officer, male citizens – female citizens. A considerable contribution of this study is its investigation of the above mentioned cross relation along with the public dimension. Keywords: Gender, Police Image, Female Police Officer, Male Police Officer

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H General Social Sciences 1-99, Police., Crime.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611702/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19772

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis