[Abe.kth.se_sakraplatseruserlist] Sexual harrassment and NYPD

[Felson, Marcus K]

It is very important for science and policy to map out where harassment incidents occur quite specifically. That can then be used to imagine situational prevention measures. Any transport crime experts with data access should start to map incidents within their transit system.


Marcus

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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 9, 2018 7:27:25 PM
To: Mangai Natarajan
Cc: abe.kth.se_tcr-network at maillist.sys.kth.se; abe.kth.se_sakraplatseruserlist at maillist.sys.kth.se
Subject: Re: [TCR-network] 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:
>
> 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
> To: von Essen Erik
> Cc: abe.kth.se_tcr-network at maillist.sys.kth.se; abe.kth.se_sakraplatseruserlist at maillist.sys.kth.se
> Subject: [TCR-network] Sexual harrassment and NYPD
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> NYPD informationsfolder avseende sexurllt våld i T-banan. Tänkte du var intresserad//Erik
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> Skickat från min iPhone
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