Gender and Policing

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. This work should be of interest to all those concerned with questions of policing and gender, and occupational culture more generally, while the theoretical framework developed should provide an important foundation for strategies of reform. At the same time the book provides a picture of the realities of operational policing in contemporary Britain.

ISBN 1903240700   Pages 218 ISBN13 9781903240700 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 522 Imprint Willan Publishing   Published in Cullompton Format Hardback   Height (mm) 235 Publication date 01 Jan 2002   Width (mm) 165 Library of Congress HV   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 363.2   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of Tables
		Preface and acknowledgements
1		Policing and gendered bodies		1
2		Gendered specialists: dealing with women and children		17
3		Sexual deployment: offences against decency		46
4		Gender arrests: men and women on patrol		87
5		Cars, guns and horses: masculinities in control		134
6		Masculinities, the body and policing		176
		Bibliography		190
		Index		201

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