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

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.

本数据包包含论文《父权制下的警务：印度警方提升对女性诉求响应度改革的实验评估》（Policing in patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India）的复现数据。该数据集收录了用于评估印度中央邦（Madhya Pradesh）推行的女性服务台（Women’s Help Desks, WHDs）警务改革效果的随机对照试验（Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT）分析数据。
具体而言，数据包涵盖2018年11月至2020年12月期间采集的五类来源数据：
i) 警方登记案件的行政记录数据；
ii) 所有派出所入口处监控摄像头的闭路电视（Closed Circuit Television, CCTV）录像数据；
iii) 到访调研派出所的公众满意度调查问卷数据；
iv) 在调研基线与终期阶段开展的、针对不同岗位与职级派出所警务人员的警务人员调查问卷数据；
v) 在基线与终期阶段开展的公民调查问卷数据，内容涵盖安全感知、对警方的评价与接触经历、以及涉罪经历。
数据包同时包含警务人员、公众及公民调研所用的问卷工具，以及复现论文及其补充材料中表格与图表所需的Stata代码。如需了解数据详情或代码运行方法，请参阅自述文件（readme file）。
相关论文的摘要如下：
针对性别导向的警务改革常被提议用于解决全球范围内不断上升却报案率低下的性别暴力（Gender-based Violence, GBV）问题，但改革效果参差不齐且往往不尽如人意。我们以印度为研究场景——该国性别暴力发生率居高不下且警方执法能力有限——通过调研女性服务台（WHDs）的实施效果展开分析：女性服务台是当地派出所内专门为女性设立的服务空间，由经过培训的警务人员值守。本研究依托目前规模最大的警务改革随机对照试验（覆盖180个派出所、服务2340万人口），结果显示，设有女性服务台的派出所警务人员更倾向于登记性别暴力案件，尤其当服务台由女性警务人员值守时效果更为显著。这表明，即便在资源匮乏且父权制环境下，通过聚焦并常态化关注女性案件，以及提升警务队伍中的女性占比，可有效改善警方对女性诉求的响应能力。