Title: Replication Data for: 'Policing in patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India'

Type Dataset Sukhtankar, Sandip, Kruks-Wisner, Gabrielle, Mangla, Akshay (2022): Replication Data for: 'Policing in patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India'. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/R75XVZ

Authors: Sukhtankar, Sandip (University of Virginia) ; Kruks-Wisner, Gabrielle (University of Virginia) ; Mangla, Akshay (University of Oxford) ; Cavanagh, Jack (J-PAL) ; Sukhtankar, Sandip (University of Virginia) ;

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Summary

This package contains replication data for: "Policing in patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India" It contains analysis data from an RCT evaluating the impacts of a police reform, Women’s Help Desks (WHDs), in Madhya Pradesh, India. Specifically, it contains data from five sources, collected between November 2018 and December 2020: i) administrative data on crimes registered by the police; ii) CCTV data from the video feeds of cameras, present in all police stations, focused on the station entrance; iii) A user survey of members of the public who had visited study police stations, asking about their satisfaction with their visit; iv) A police survey, carried out at baseline and endline, of personnel in different roles and ranks in study stations; and v) A survey of citizens, carried out at baseline and endline on perceptions of safety, opinions of and contact with the police, and experiences of crimes. Also included in the package are the survey instruments used in the police, user, and citizen surveys, as well as the Stata code necessary to replicate the tables and figures from the paper and its supplement. For further details on the data or how to run the code, please see the readme file. The abstract of the associated paper is as follows: Gender-targeted police reforms are frequently proposed to tackle the global problem of rising yet under-reported gender-based violence (GBV) – but with mixed and often disappointing results. We explore this issue in India, a country with alarming rates of GBV and limited police capacity, by studying the impact of Women’s Help Desks (WHDs): dedicated spaces for women in local police stations, staffed by trained officers. Drawing on the largest randomized controlled trial of a police reform to date (180 police stations serving 23.4 million people), we find that officers in stations with WHDs are more likely to register cases of GBV, particularly where female officers run the desks. This suggests that, even in resource constrained and patriarchal environments, police responsiveness can be improved by focusing and mainstreaming attention to women’s cases and by greater gender representation within the police.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/R75XVZ

Subjects

• Law, Social Sciences
• CESSDA: Crime and law enforcement, Gender and gender roles, Crime and law enforcement, Gender and gender roles

Dates

• Publication date: 2022
• Submitted: May 17, 2022
• Updated: May 20, 2022

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

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electronic resource