Despite the plethora of research on inner-city policing, little is known about how women experience and make sense of involuntary police encounters. Based upon interviews with women who had their homes raided by police in Toronto’s inner-city, this paper explores how these marginalized women perceive, navigate, and resist normative gender expectations in their interactions with police officers during raids. Our findings demonstrate that women believed officers treated them according to gendered stereotypes, and in response, women strategically deployed gendered presentations in an effort to resist, negotiate, and temper anticipated raid related harms. However, participants’ positionality constrained their efforts.

尽管对市中心治安的研究非常多，但对于女性如何经历非自愿的警察遭遇以及如何理解这一点，人们知之甚少。本文基于对多伦多市中心房屋被警察突击搜查的女性的采访，探讨了这些边缘化女性在突袭期间与警察互动时如何感知、引导和抵制规范的性别期望。我们的研究结果表明，女性认为警察根据性别刻板印象对待她们，作为回应，女性战略性地部署了性别表述，以抵抗、谈判和缓和预期的突袭相关伤害。然而，参与者的立场限制了他们的努力。