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Papers by Marie-Louise Glebbeek

Tijdschrift voor criminologie, May 1, 2024

To promote discussions of methodological issues associated with cross-gender research in criminol... more To promote discussions of methodological issues associated with cross-gender research in criminology, we focus on two women’s studies of Latin American police. This uncovered five working propositions about women studying organizations dominated numerically and structurally by men. First, feminist scholarship provides some guidelines for such research, but its applicability is neither direct nor immediate. Second, for example, much crossgender research requires negotiating and maintaining power differentials between researcher and researched. Third, particularly in cross-gender research on secrecy and danger, inter-gender dynamics can thwart some research objectives and promote others. Fourth, inter-gender dynamics can complicate the ethical dilemmas associated with research on powerful agents and agencies of the state. Finally, the emotional reflexivity associated with such intergender research is epistemologically relevant for understanding research outcomes.

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 2021

The outbreak of COVID-19 has turned out to be a major challenge to societies all over the globe. ... more The outbreak of COVID-19 has turned out to be a major challenge to societies all over the globe. Curbing the pandemic requires rapid and extensive behavioural change to limit social interaction, including physical distancing. In this study, we tested the notion that inducing empathy for people vulnerable to the virus may result in actual distancing behaviour beyond the mere motivation to do so. In a large field experiment with a sequential case?control design, we found that (a) empathy prompts may increase distancing as assessed by camera recordings and (b) effectiveness of prompts depends on the dynamics of the pandemic and associated public health policies. In sum, the present study demonstrates the potential of empathy-generating interventions to promote pro-social behaviour and emphasizes the necessity of field experiments to assess the role of context before advising policy makers to implement measures derived from behavioural science. Please refer to Supplementary Material to ...

Habitat International, 2015

Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences," to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited ... more Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences," to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited volume, Women Fielding Danger ( 2009). The downloaded chapter weaves together the volumes four themes that emerged from field research by 15 academic women whose research covered five disciplines across 12 world regions. The themes are: (a) male gender preeminence; (b) negotiating power and identities; (c) crafting safe spaces; (d)guarding ethics in motion

Interviewing across genders and creating new idenities in the process

Article included in Women Fielding Danger, Martha K. Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek

Urban Latin America has become synonymous with violence and insecurity. Whereas levels of violenc... more Urban Latin America has become synonymous with violence and insecurity. Whereas levels of violence since 2000, in terms of homicide rates, dropped everywhere else in the world, Latin America and the Caribbean were the exception. Often, efforts to explain this make a connection between poverty, crime,
and violence that finds its typical representation in peripheral urban areas: shanty towns. This paper challenges such one-dimensional assumptions by critically examining the complex nexus between violence, insecurity and urban space in urban Latin America. We will define contemporary urban violence in the region and discuss its key characteristics and explanatory factors. Then, we will examine the socio-spatial dimensions of violence and insecurity in three domains: the linkages between criminal gangs, drugs, and violence in peripheral areas; the impact of violence and fear on the strategies of seclusion employed by specific social classes; state responses, especially policing, to show how regimes of public security are differentiated in socio-spatial terms We will argue that these differences reflect differences in citizenship status and citizenship subjectivity, between the privileged and the excluded. This in turn generates bottom-up responses by urban residents that take matters of security and law
enforcement in their own hands.

Mano Dura: Fighting Crime, Violence and Insecurity with an Iron Fist in Central America, Jan 1, 2010

Post-war violence and police reform in Guatemala, Jan 1, 2009

... Usage: Undergraduate Researcher Gets “Gendered In” 47 Kat Rito 3 Globalizing Feminist Researc... more ... Usage: Undergraduate Researcher Gets “Gendered In” 47 Kat Rito 3 Globalizing Feminist Research 67 Jennifer Bickham Mendez 4 Veiling ... 11 Negotiating the Muddiness of Grassroots Field Research: Managing Identity and Data in Rural El Salvador 271 Jocelyn Viterna Part IV ...

Women fielding danger: …, Jan 1, 2009

Theoretical Criminology, Jan 1, 2003

To promote discussions of methodological issues associated with cross-gender research in criminol... more To promote discussions of methodological issues associated with cross-gender research in criminology, we focus on two women’s studies of Latin American police. This uncovered five working propositions about women studying organizations dominated numerically and structurally by men. First, feminist scholarship provides some guidelines for such research, but its applicability is neither direct nor immediate. Second, for example, much crossgender research requires negotiating and maintaining power
differentials between researcher and researched. Third, particularly in cross-gender research on secrecy and danger, inter-gender dynamics can thwart some research objectives and promote others. Fourth, inter-gender dynamics can complicate the ethical dilemmas
associated with research on powerful agents and agencies of the state. Finally, the emotional reflexivity associated with such intergender research is epistemologically relevant for understanding research outcomes.

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Jan 1, 2001

After 36 years of mostly authoritarian rule and often bitter civil conflict in Guatemala, the Dec... more After 36 years of mostly authoritarian rule and often bitter civil conflict in Guatemala, the December 1996 Peace Accords prepared the ground for a new phase of reconstruction, democratisation and social and institutional reform. Prior to the Peace Accords, policing in Guatemala
had been often violent, repressive and subordinated to the
counterinsurgency logic of the military. Security sector reform intentions included the abolition of existing police forces and the creation of a new National Civil Police (PNC). The PNC was meant to give substance to a new way of policing in tune with the building of democratic governance and effective law enforcement. This paper examines the general background of the reforms, discusses the
limitations of the results so far, and takes a particular and critical look at one of the key components of the police reform: the recruitment and training of PNC aspirants, using the case of the 1999 Fifth Promotion that entered the Academy of the PNC.

Latin American Studies Association, Miami, FL, March, Jan 1, 2000

... Police work in Guatemala and probably all over the world is still a male dominated profession... more ... Police work in Guatemala and probably all over the world is still a male dominated profession. ... Some of them already worked in security forces like the army (7 per cent) and private security firms (12 per cent) and mostly changed of institution because a better salary and a better ...

Books by Marie-Louise Glebbeek

Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences" to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited v... more Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences" to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited volume, Women Fielding Danger ( 2009). The downloaded chapter weaves together four themes that emerged from the volume's field research by 15 academic women whose research covered five disciplines and whose work covered 12 world regions. The themes are: (a) male gender preeminence; (b) negotiating power and identities; (c) crafting safe spaces; (d)guarding ethics in motion

Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences" to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited v... more Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences" to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited volume, Women Fielding Danger ( 2009). The downloaded chapter weaves together four themes that emerged from the volume's field research by 15 academic women whose research covered five disciplines and whose work covered 12 world regions. The themes are: (a) male gender preeminence; (b) negotiating power and identities; (c) crafting safe spaces; (d)guarding ethics in motion

Tijdschrift voor criminologie, May 1, 2024

To promote discussions of methodological issues associated with cross-gender research in criminol... more To promote discussions of methodological issues associated with cross-gender research in criminology, we focus on two women’s studies of Latin American police. This uncovered five working propositions about women studying organizations dominated numerically and structurally by men. First, feminist scholarship provides some guidelines for such research, but its applicability is neither direct nor immediate. Second, for example, much crossgender research requires negotiating and maintaining power differentials between researcher and researched. Third, particularly in cross-gender research on secrecy and danger, inter-gender dynamics can thwart some research objectives and promote others. Fourth, inter-gender dynamics can complicate the ethical dilemmas associated with research on powerful agents and agencies of the state. Finally, the emotional reflexivity associated with such intergender research is epistemologically relevant for understanding research outcomes.

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 2021

The outbreak of COVID-19 has turned out to be a major challenge to societies all over the globe. ... more The outbreak of COVID-19 has turned out to be a major challenge to societies all over the globe. Curbing the pandemic requires rapid and extensive behavioural change to limit social interaction, including physical distancing. In this study, we tested the notion that inducing empathy for people vulnerable to the virus may result in actual distancing behaviour beyond the mere motivation to do so. In a large field experiment with a sequential case?control design, we found that (a) empathy prompts may increase distancing as assessed by camera recordings and (b) effectiveness of prompts depends on the dynamics of the pandemic and associated public health policies. In sum, the present study demonstrates the potential of empathy-generating interventions to promote pro-social behaviour and emphasizes the necessity of field experiments to assess the role of context before advising policy makers to implement measures derived from behavioural science. Please refer to Supplementary Material to ...

Habitat International, 2015

Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences," to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited ... more Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences," to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited volume, Women Fielding Danger ( 2009). The downloaded chapter weaves together the volumes four themes that emerged from field research by 15 academic women whose research covered five disciplines across 12 world regions. The themes are: (a) male gender preeminence; (b) negotiating power and identities; (c) crafting safe spaces; (d)guarding ethics in motion

Interviewing across genders and creating new idenities in the process

Article included in Women Fielding Danger, Martha K. Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek

Urban Latin America has become synonymous with violence and insecurity. Whereas levels of violenc... more Urban Latin America has become synonymous with violence and insecurity. Whereas levels of violence since 2000, in terms of homicide rates, dropped everywhere else in the world, Latin America and the Caribbean were the exception. Often, efforts to explain this make a connection between poverty, crime,
and violence that finds its typical representation in peripheral urban areas: shanty towns. This paper challenges such one-dimensional assumptions by critically examining the complex nexus between violence, insecurity and urban space in urban Latin America. We will define contemporary urban violence in the region and discuss its key characteristics and explanatory factors. Then, we will examine the socio-spatial dimensions of violence and insecurity in three domains: the linkages between criminal gangs, drugs, and violence in peripheral areas; the impact of violence and fear on the strategies of seclusion employed by specific social classes; state responses, especially policing, to show how regimes of public security are differentiated in socio-spatial terms We will argue that these differences reflect differences in citizenship status and citizenship subjectivity, between the privileged and the excluded. This in turn generates bottom-up responses by urban residents that take matters of security and law
enforcement in their own hands.

Mano Dura: Fighting Crime, Violence and Insecurity with an Iron Fist in Central America, Jan 1, 2010

Post-war violence and police reform in Guatemala, Jan 1, 2009

... Usage: Undergraduate Researcher Gets “Gendered In” 47 Kat Rito 3 Globalizing Feminist Researc... more ... Usage: Undergraduate Researcher Gets “Gendered In” 47 Kat Rito 3 Globalizing Feminist Research 67 Jennifer Bickham Mendez 4 Veiling ... 11 Negotiating the Muddiness of Grassroots Field Research: Managing Identity and Data in Rural El Salvador 271 Jocelyn Viterna Part IV ...

Women fielding danger: …, Jan 1, 2009

Theoretical Criminology, Jan 1, 2003

To promote discussions of methodological issues associated with cross-gender research in criminol... more To promote discussions of methodological issues associated with cross-gender research in criminology, we focus on two women’s studies of Latin American police. This uncovered five working propositions about women studying organizations dominated numerically and structurally by men. First, feminist scholarship provides some guidelines for such research, but its applicability is neither direct nor immediate. Second, for example, much crossgender research requires negotiating and maintaining power
differentials between researcher and researched. Third, particularly in cross-gender research on secrecy and danger, inter-gender dynamics can thwart some research objectives and promote others. Fourth, inter-gender dynamics can complicate the ethical dilemmas
associated with research on powerful agents and agencies of the state. Finally, the emotional reflexivity associated with such intergender research is epistemologically relevant for understanding research outcomes.

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Jan 1, 2001

After 36 years of mostly authoritarian rule and often bitter civil conflict in Guatemala, the Dec... more After 36 years of mostly authoritarian rule and often bitter civil conflict in Guatemala, the December 1996 Peace Accords prepared the ground for a new phase of reconstruction, democratisation and social and institutional reform. Prior to the Peace Accords, policing in Guatemala
had been often violent, repressive and subordinated to the
counterinsurgency logic of the military. Security sector reform intentions included the abolition of existing police forces and the creation of a new National Civil Police (PNC). The PNC was meant to give substance to a new way of policing in tune with the building of democratic governance and effective law enforcement. This paper examines the general background of the reforms, discusses the
limitations of the results so far, and takes a particular and critical look at one of the key components of the police reform: the recruitment and training of PNC aspirants, using the case of the 1999 Fifth Promotion that entered the Academy of the PNC.

Latin American Studies Association, Miami, FL, March, Jan 1, 2000

... Police work in Guatemala and probably all over the world is still a male dominated profession... more ... Police work in Guatemala and probably all over the world is still a male dominated profession. ... Some of them already worked in security forces like the army (7 per cent) and private security firms (12 per cent) and mostly changed of institution because a better salary and a better ...

Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences" to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited v... more Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences" to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited volume, Women Fielding Danger ( 2009). The downloaded chapter weaves together four themes that emerged from the volume's field research by 15 academic women whose research covered five disciplines and whose work covered 12 world regions. The themes are: (a) male gender preeminence; (b) negotiating power and identities; (c) crafting safe spaces; (d)guarding ethics in motion

Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences" to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited v... more Theoretical Introduction, "Similarities and Differences" to Huggins and Glebbeek's, 2009 edited volume, Women Fielding Danger ( 2009). The downloaded chapter weaves together four themes that emerged from the volume's field research by 15 academic women whose research covered five disciplines and whose work covered 12 world regions. The themes are: (a) male gender preeminence; (b) negotiating power and identities; (c) crafting safe spaces; (d)guarding ethics in motion