[Abe.kth.se_sakraplatseruserlist] Sexual harrassment and NYPD

[Mangai Natarajan]

My point is as Marcus mentioned one need to map the hotpots of SH and the use SCp measures. Posters, banners, all should be used wherever it is necessary. In those areas provide free hotline- patrolling  and train the officers to take seriously of the reporting. There are instances  male police officers could harass and trivialize the complaints also. There are so many scenarios. First we have take an inventory of public transport environments and do safety audit (detailed one based on SCP, techniques, cultural  and gender specific setting ) 

First step is reporting-  how to where to who to ... Without some official data  it is difficult to estimate the varied nature of SH.  We do travellers' survey -that should  be complemented with police data.More data better our assessment of the problem to develop measures. 

My research participants have no clue where to  because - there is no mechanism inside the subway system and they do not know where the local precinct is or to reach MTA officers. 

My research participants were also informed that they were  reluctant to stay and wait around for  the officer to turn up- because they do not come right away-When they reach to, the officers do not take them seriously and just give oral warning to the harassers. This indeed discourages the ones even if they want to report. Yes. There is need for plethora of ideas to be integrated for any crime prevention initiative. Both SCP and CPTED concepts need to be integrated in designing out sexual harassment in transport environments. We need to have a discussion of  RCT, quasi experimental design projects in various cultural setting on the topic designing out SH in PTE.
I had recently been at a forum on SH on and off campus- So I am chewing ideas..
Mangai



Mangai Natarajan Ph.D
Professor, Department of  Criminal Justice
Director International Criminal Justice BA Program
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York
Haaren Hall, Room # 63205
524 West 59th Street
New York, N.Y.  10019
Tel-212-237-8673

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From: Vania A Ceccato [vania.ceccato at abe.kth.se]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 8:27 PM
To: Mangai Natarajan
Cc: von Essen Erik; abe.kth.se_tcr-network at maillist.sys.kth.se; abe.kth.se_sakraplatseruserlist at maillist.sys.kth.se
Subject: Re: Sexual harrassment and NYPD

Dear Mangaj
All good points! Passengers must feel that this requires a combined action, not only from me, as passenger, not only the guards, the police - it requires a joined action - posters can help changing the way people see a particular situation, which ultimately lead them to act.

In São Paulo, newspapers were flagging for the gap between what we would wish for from these campaigns and what happens in reality. Riders would spell out the double message from the metro - act, report sexual harassment - at the same time they would not provide enough means for reporting or for a safe trip - completely overcrowded wagons in rush hours, hotline and sms that send a standard message whatever happens to you as passenger. Many felt that reporting was not enough. They were not taken seriously. And this might have a negative effect. A wider support for passengers must be in place.

Thank you Mangaj for your comments!
Best
Vania

> On 9 May 2018, at 23:25, Mangai Natarajan <mnatarajan at jjay.cuny.edu> wrote:
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> Vania:
> One of the categories of SCP is to remove excuses. Under that category there are couple of techniques alert conscience and post instructions that are used widely to inform the message of Zero tolerance  of  sexual harassment any transport system including MTA in NYC. This is one of the many measures that are needed to deal with SH. Also when developing these measures one need to understand the common vogue and cultural acceptance of message to public. In NY subway especially in main stations such as 42nd street the message in the visual screens do attract split second attention of the travelers. The message in the subway cars also stand out among other ads. I have not seen any pictures to depict sexual harassment in the subway... Too much attention is also not good.
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> Whatsoever, when experience or witness SH, the victim should have immediate venue to report for immediate action while waiting and riding the public transport. This could be done by the help of bystanders. When developing brochures the role of bystanders need to integrated. So that there is no excuse for those bystanders to keep quite...If you look at crime triangle- one of the dimension is the absence of capable guardians in the place where offenders and victims activity converge. That is the place dimension - the place is the transport environment where the so called risky situations pop up. We think the transport authority has the place managers role to play  to safeguard but in my opinion, the self routine precautions ( only when people see the brochures and ads will alert) and the bystanders intervention ( alerting their conscience also) is crucial.
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> Best
> Mangai
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> Mangai Natarajan Ph.D
> Professor, Department of  Criminal Justice
> Director International Criminal Justice BA Program
> John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York
> Haaren Hall, Room # 63205
> 524 West 59th Street
> New York, N.Y.  10019
> Tel-212-237-8673
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> From: abe.kth.se_tcr-network-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se [abe.kth.se_tcr-network-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se] on behalf of Vania A Ceccato [vania.ceccato at abe.kth.se]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 12:43 AM
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> Subject: [TCR-network] Sexual harrassment and NYPD
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> Dear TCR-Network
> Yesterday I meet Erik von Essin who is responsible the situational crime prevention at County level here in Stockholm. We talked about violent crime associated with night life and he mentioned about NYPD campaign in New York. See the photo in this email.
> The question about making explicit campaign is not always well received by the population – as we have discussed in previous email, when Hugo shared photos from Paris and Brussels. In Sao Paulo, the campaign generated a discussion on whether the company was dropping the responsibility to passengers to report and deal with the problem.
> What do you think? (please copy the email to all in the list)
> Best wishes
> Vania
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> From: von Essen Erik <erik.von.essen at lansstyrelsen.se>
> Sent: den 8 maj 2018 22:43
> To: Vania A Ceccato <vania.ceccato at abe.kth.se>
> Subject: Re: tack för idag
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> NYPD informationsfolder avseende sexurllt våld i T-banan. Tänkte du var intresserad//Erik
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