An assessment of Police perceptions of Microaggression in Gauteng Province, South Africa
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Discrimination, microaggression, police, respect, responsibilityResumo
Microaggressions are brief and commonplace verbal, behavioural, or environmental indignities that communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults towards people of minority groups and may be committed intentionally or unintentionally by perpetrators. The study was motivated by the prevalence of gendered violence in South Africa. Purposive sampling was used to identify twenty police officials for interviews at six police stations in the Gauteng province. The objective of the study was to explore police perspectives of microaggression. Results showed that most police perceived microaggression as intimidation and gender-based discrimination. Punitive measures were recommended against behaviour. The findings are ungeneralizable.
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