Largest-ever trial of police responses finds stations with women’s help desks record more intimate-partner crimes.
Police in India are more likely to register crimes reported by women in stations with dedicated women’s help desks than in those without. And help desks staffed by female officers record more crimes against women that result in mandatory criminal investigations.
In 2017, the police force in Madhya Pradesh, a state in the heartland of India known for its patriarchal culture, decided to improve its response to gender-based violence. It approached economists at the Abdul Lateef Jameel Poverty Action Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to help it overcome the barriers that keep women from reporting crimes and the police from recording them. The laboratory is known for performing randomized controlled trials to test social interventions.
“They had tried a version of this intervention in the past, but it was not systematized,” says Sukhtankar. “So they wanted to see, if it’s done correctly, if this could work.” “What we can clearly see is that of the women that did show up to the police station, they had just a much better experience overall, they were listened to, they were more likely to be believed,” says Sukhtankar.The impact might be down to the training that the police officers received, especially in places with poor gender norms, says Sofia Amaral, an economist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany who studies gender-based violence in India.
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