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{"title":"Beyond institutional silence: How social representations and psychological capital shape police responses to femicide in Brazil","authors":"Ana Carla Teixeira de Carvalho Ladeia,&nbsp;Lindomar Pinto da Silva,&nbsp;Diego da Silva Santos,&nbsp;Maria Elisa Huber Pessina","doi":"10.1111/asap.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates how social representations, organizational silence, and psychological capital (PsyCap) interact to shape police responses to femicide within the Civil Police of Bahia, Brazil. A qualitative approach was adopted, based on 32 semi-structured interviews with civil police officers and the analysis of 286 institutional documents produced between 2018 and 2024. The data were examined using content analysis and semantic network analysis. The results reveal the coexistence of competing representations of femicide within the same organization. While police officers predominantly interpret femicide as an expression of gender inequalities, patriarchal culture, and the subjugation of women, institutional narratives prioritize operational responses, prevention strategies, and the agency of the women themselves. This discrepancy appears to undermine positive psychological resources such as hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism. The findings also suggest that organizational silence operates by regulating the visibility of competing interpretations, influencing the symbolic attribution of responsibility and creating conditions for the emergence of “reverse accountability”—a process wherein institutional narratives increasingly position women as the protagonists in preventing the violence they suffer, while structural and institutional responsibilities become relatively less visible. The study contributes by demonstrating that organizational silence acts as a mechanism regulating the visibility of meanings, explaining how competing interpretations gain institutional legitimacy, influence professionals' psychological resources, and foster the emergence of reverse accountability in responses to femicide.</p><p><b>Public Significance Statement</b></p><p>Police officers often acknowledge that femicide is driven by gender inequalities deeply rooted in society's culture, but the narratives in institutional messages may emphasize individual prevention, starting with women themselves, rather than structural causes. Recognizing this gap can help improve police training and the practices of police organizations, strengthen public policies, and support more effective responses to violence against women.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70091","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public opposition to protest online: A qualitative content analysis of YouTube comments on UK climate activism videos","authors":"Harry M. Lewis,&nbsp;Rim Saab,&nbsp;Anna Devitt,&nbsp;Ben Franklin,&nbsp;Heather Pell,&nbsp;Maria Fernandes-Jesus,&nbsp;Vivian L. Vignoles","doi":"10.1111/asap.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Public discourse plays a crucial role in shaping the success of social movements. While research has explored public support for collective action, less attention has been paid to active opposition and delegitimization strategies. This study investigates the discursive contestation of climate protests by Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil in the United Kingdom in online spaces, through a qualitative content analysis of YouTube comments (<i>N</i> = 1516) posted under news videos from three data sampling rounds between 2021 and 2023, pertaining to roadblocks as well as art vandalism. We identify eight discursive tactics used to contest protest movements, including (1) Attribution of negative characteristics or traits to protesters; (2) Othering through attributing devalued social categories to protesters; (3) Questioning protesters’ motives and commitment; (4) Reframing the cause as unimportant or the proposed solutions flawed; (5) Critiquing the morality of the protest action; (6) Undermining the efficacy and logic of protest action; (7) Conspiratorial accounts of protesters’ agenda; and (8) Calls for punitive responses to protesters and protest action. We discuss how our discrete categories map onto existing theories of collective action contestation, and highlight the dynamic nature of such discourse, shaped by social context and broader ideological concerns. Our research underscores the significance of online discourse in obstructing social change and calls for further investigation into the real-world behavioral consequences of such narratives on public attitudes toward social movements.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Generalized prejudice and support for democracy among People of Color","authors":"Gretchen Nihill,&nbsp;Isabella Crame,&nbsp;Chanel Meyers","doi":"10.1111/asap.70086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The last decade of U.S. American political life has been described as “unprecedented times”. For many in the U.S., watching governmental norms erode and favor a select few elites over the common people signals that we are in a time of democratic backsliding. However, for People of Color (POC) in the United States, a fascist government working against one's well-being is not novel. Thus, the goal of this work is to center POC perspectives and investigate factors associated with democratic attitudes among POC in the U.S. In Study 1, we examined a wide array of potential constructs pulled from a 2020 post-election survey. Overwhelmingly, beliefs about the shared nature of oppression emerged as a dominant predictor of democratic attitudes. In Study 2, we tested whether the relationship between beliefs about the shared nature of prejudice (e.g., Lay Theory of Generalized Prejudice; LTGP) and POC's support for democratic norms replicated with established measures. Our findings demonstrate that LTGP is associated with greater support for democracy and the view that democracy upholds racial equity; however, only linked fate was significantly associated with support for democratic norms. This work highlights the importance of generalized views of prejudice and oppression for understanding POC's endorsements of democratic values.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From legislation to lived experience: The CROWN Act in the workplace","authors":"Oyenike Balogun","doi":"10.1111/asap.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this mixed-methods pilot study conducted in Massachusetts, we examined experiences of hair discrimination among Black women, their work-related quality of life, and the impacts of employer responses to recently passed legislation on hair discrimination. We recruited employed Black women to complete a brief online survey (<i>N =</i> 109; Aged 20–69; <i>M =</i> 37.76, SD = 10.26) and then conducted follow-up, semi-structured interviews with a sub-sample of them (<i>n =</i> 6). There were areas of convergence and divergence between the quantitative and qualitative findings. Quantitative results showed low rates of experienced hair discrimination and relatively positive levels of work-related quality of life. Notably, 24.5% of respondents reported that they saw evidence of their employers acting to support and enforce policies like the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act. The results of a mediation analysis revealed a significant direct effect of hair discrimination on work-related quality of life, although the mediation effect of employer support of the policy was not significant. Qualitative findings suggested that hair discrimination was normative in workplaces and work-related quality of life was influenced by a number of factors, including heavy work demands, image management, and stressors outside of work. Overall, participants did not perceive their employers to be engaging with hair-related protective policies in ways that were making a meaningful difference. Recommendations for employers and implications for future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Title IX practitioners’ perceptions of two college sexual violence mandatory reporting policy approaches","authors":"Kathryn J. Holland,&nbsp;Rebecca L. Howard Valdivia,&nbsp;Rachael Goodman-Williams,&nbsp;Agnes Rieger,&nbsp;Julia O'Connor,&nbsp;Elizabeth Q. Hutchison,&nbsp;Nicole E. Allen,&nbsp;Courtney E. Ahrens","doi":"10.1111/asap.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In U.S. institutions of higher education (IHEs), mandatory reporting policies require certain designated employees to report any experience of sexual violence they learn about to IHE officials, regardless of victim/survivors’ consent to the report. Many IHEs designate all or nearly all employees as mandatory reporters (a <i>Universal</i> approach). However, others have more nuanced policies, such designating only select employees as mandatory reporters and requiring other employees to obtain survivor consent to reports made to IHE officials (a <i>Selective and Survivor Directed</i> approach). This mixed method study explored Title IX practitioners’ perspectives of two mandatory reporting policy approaches. We collected survey data from 260 Title IX practitioners at U.S. IHEs. Our quantitative analysis explored multiple factors associated with Title IX practitioners’ preference for a <i>Universal</i> or <i>Selective and Survivor Directed</i> approach (fear of lawsuits, fear of negative media, legal training, years of Title IX experience, trauma competency, mandatory reporting policy at their IHE, gender, residentiality). Only one was significant: participants whose IHE currently had a Universal policy (vs. an Alternative policy) were more likely to prefer the <i>Universal</i> approach. Our qualitative analysis offered nuanced insight into participants’ policy preferences. All participants wanted a policy they believed would effectively address sexual violence but differed in what they believed would be most effective. Participants who preferred the <i>Universal</i> approach believed an effective policy would be simple and center the Title IX office. Participants who preferred the <i>Selective and Survivor Directed</i> approach believed an effective policy would be flexible and center survivor autonomy. Participants also differed in their conceptualization of survivor autonomy. Findings underscore the need for empirical evidence on the intended and actual outcomes of mandatory reporting policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Zero-sum thinking, meritocratic beliefs, and preferences for basic income and universal healthcare","authors":"David Chavanne","doi":"10.1111/asap.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study uses survey responses to explore how support for basic income and universal healthcare is linked to zero-sum thinking and meritocratic beliefs. Consistent with earlier work, the results show that zero-sum thinking and weaker meritocratic beliefs are associated with increased support for basic income and universal healthcare. Zero-sum thinking and meritocratic beliefs are also associated with each other, with stronger zero-sum thinking corresponding with weaker meritocratic beliefs. These results suggest that zero-sum thinking plays an important role in shaping support for progressive policies, and that a multifaceted connection between zero-sum thinking and policy support may serve as a barrier to widespread recognition, appreciation, and promotion of the positive-sum consequences of these policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reward devaluation of the 2024 U.S. presidential election","authors":"Sarah Simon,&nbsp;Lydia Eastman,&nbsp;Ethan J. Beberness,&nbsp;E. Samuel Winer","doi":"10.1111/asap.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated how expectations regarding the relationship between positivity and negativity, via reward devaluation theory (RDT), may have informed election behaviors for registered Democrats during the 2024 U.S. presidential election. We also explored related cognitive/affective processes by collecting information regarding participants’ social identities (e.g., race, class, gender), experiences (e.g., activism participation), depression symptoms, and beliefs (e.g., political cynicism, social justice orientation). Participating Democrats were gathered via social media ads (<i>N</i> = 106, 80.2% white, 42.5% cis-female). We found that those likely to devalue reward (measured via fear of happiness (FHS; Joshanloo, 2013)) reported having been less likely to vote for Biden-Harris but more likely to vote for Harris-Walz, Δ<i>R²</i> = .03, <i>F</i>(1, 102) = 7.58, 𝛽 = –.030, SE = .011, <i>t</i> = -2.75, p = .007. We also found that FHS was positively associated with likelihood of voting third-party before Biden stepped down, rho = .243, <i>p</i> = .012. We discuss unpredicted findings and exploratory analyses. Overall, these findings suggest reward devaluation offers a promising avenue for future research to explore how aversions to positivity can shape democratic participation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of an interdependence mindset on empowering help towards immigrants","authors":"Nadine Knab","doi":"10.1111/asap.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building cohesive societies where individuals from diverse backgrounds can thrive is one of the most challenging tasks both within and between communities. In the context of migration, this challenge is often exacerbated by counterproductive emotional dynamics, such as the perception of threats from the host society towards immigrants, which can hinder the development of supportive and empowering relationships. The present research examined whether an interdependence mindset—the perception that immigrants and members of the receiving society are mutually reliant and benefit from each other's contributions—promotes autonomy-oriented helping (but not dependency-oriented helping). Across two experiments conducted in the United States (total <i>N</i> = 801), perceiving immigrants as positively contributing to society was consistently associated with greater autonomy-oriented helping. In Study 2, we experimentally examined whether interdependence framing would sustain autonomy-oriented helping when system threat was made salient in the context of a real-world education policy. Although the overall interaction between threat and framing condition did not reach conventional levels of statistical significance, additional analyses indicated that allocations to the education fund was lower in the threat vs the control condition within the independence condition, whereas allocations in the interdependence condition were statistically comparable across threat contexts. These findings suggest that interdependence framing may help sustain autonomy-oriented helping in contexts where threat narratives are salient. Results are discussed in terms of communication strategies and their practical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148467062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public scholarship in faculty evaluation: Disrupting what matters and what counts","authors":"Kim A. Case,&nbsp;Apryl A. Alexander,&nbsp;Kaitlyn Lee,&nbsp;Simon Howard,&nbsp;Susan Bodnar-Deren","doi":"10.1111/asap.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racial differences in predictors of critical action among college students","authors":"London Bowers,&nbsp;Molly Mendoza,&nbsp;Lisa A. Turner","doi":"10.1111/asap.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social and political activities take many forms with some efforts centered on the promotion of social justice. Critical consciousness underlies many social justice efforts. Critical consciousness refers to the perception of social and economic inequities and engagement in actions to reduce inequities. Diemer's model of critical consciousness suggests that critical reflection, efficacy, and critical action are interrelated. Additionally, researchers have demonstrated that experiencing discrimination is an important predictor of critical action. The goal of the current study was to examine predictors of critical action and determine if these predictors differed for Black and White students. College students reported critical reflection (perceptions of inequality), internal (personal) efficacy, external (government responsiveness to people) efficacy, discrimination, and critical action. For the Black students (<i>n</i> = 165), critical action was positively predicted by discrimination and external efficacy. For the White students (<i>n</i> = 418), critical action was positively predicted by discrimination and critical reflection. To further elucidate these findings, participants were asked to describe why they chose to either work to reduce injustice or why they chose not to get involved. The themes for students that reported they work to reduce injustice centered on values. They stressed the importance of fairness and justice, they reported a sense of responsibility to help others and to make the world better. Even when experiencing discrimination, they reported a desire to protect others from similar experiences. Themes from participants who do not get involved focused on the self. Students reported the desire to avoid conflict, fearing repercussions, lacking interest, and lacking resources. These findings demonstrate the diversity in predictors of critical action among college students. Efforts to support emerging adults social/political engagement may need to be refined to fit the participants being addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}