Gender and Policing: Sex, Power and Police Culture

ISBN-13: 9781903240700 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 224 str.

Louise Westmarland

Opis

An innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities), this book examines the way police attitudes and beliefs combine to perpetuate a working culture which is dependent upon traditional conceptions of male and female. In doing so it challenges previously held assumptions about the way women are harassed, manipulated and constrained, focusing rather on the more subtle impact of structures and norms within police culture.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Policing and the gendered body 2. Gendered specialists: dealing with women 3. Sexual deployment: offending decency 4. Gender arrests: differential rates 5. Cars, guns and horses: masculinity 6. Masculinities, the body and policing

O autorze

Louise Westmarland is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University. Her research interests include gender and the police, violence, and ethics in the criminal justice system.