Women Police

Mangai Natarajan

Contents: History of Women in Policing: Preventative justice: the campaign for women police 1910-1940, Janis Appier; Policewomen in the 1950s: paving the way for patrol, Dorothy Moses Schulz; Women on the move? A report on the status of women in policing, Susan E. Martin; Concession and containment: the establishment of women in the Queensland police 1931-1965, Tim Prenzler; Discriminatory experiences of women police: a comparison of officers serving in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Jennifer Brown. Impediments to Full Integration: Policing women police, Simon Holdaway and Sharon K. Parker; Gender and police stress: the convergent and divergent impact of work environment, work-family conflict, and stress coping mechanisms of female and male police officers, Ni He, Jihong Zhao and Carol A. Archbold; Women in small-town policing: job performance and stress, Curt R. Bartol, George T. Bergen, Julie Seager Volckens and Kathleen M. Knoras; The impact of equal opportunities policies on the day-to-day experiences of women constables, Carol Martin; A social constructionist account of police culture and its influence on the representation and progression of female officers: a repertory grid analysis in a UK police force, Penny Dick and Devi Jankowicz; Appropriate skill-task matching or gender bias in deployment of male and female police officers?, Jennifer Brown, Anita Maidment and Ray Bull; Gender differences in police physical ability test performance, Michael L. Birzer and Dolores E. Craig. Perceived Performance and Attitudes to Women Police: Evaluating women on patrol: a critique of contemporary wisdom, Merry Morash and Jack R. Greene; The attitudes of women and men in policing: testing conventional and contemporary wisdom, Alissa Pollitz Worden; Female officers on patrol: public perceptions in the 1990s, Michael G. Breci; The weaker sex? Women and police work, Margot Ffrench and Linda Waugh . The Current Status of Women Police