Gender stereotypes

Explore all Articles

filter by–Region

filter by–Country

search by–Keyword

Compensating at Scale: America’s Insecure Masculinity and the Police

05.12.23

by–Rick Miles

In this article, Rick Miles offers a gender and masculinity based explanation for the expansion of policing and police militarization in American public life as an example of compensatory masculinity.

Call for Submissions

Join the HKS Student Policy Review—

to research, write, and learn about policy in a new way. We offer Harvard students an opportunity to engage with the most important policy issues of our time, across a whole range of topics and regions.

More Information