Gender, masculinity and policing: An analysis of the implications of police masculinised culture on policing domestic violence in southern Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria

This study explores and compares how the masculinised policing culture of the Ghana and Nigeria Police influences their interventions in domestic violence (DV). The police, as a public and security institution, play a very critical and pivotal role in the fight against domestic violence. The domesti...

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Main Authors: Abena Asefuaba Yalley, Molatokunbo Seunfunmi Olutayo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Social Sciences and Humanities Open
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291120300668