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Women police : gender, welfare, and surveillance in the twentieth century / / Louise A. Jackson



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Autore: Jackson Louise A (Louise Ainsley), <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women police : gender, welfare, and surveillance in the twentieth century / / Louise A. Jackson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2012
©2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 363.2082
Soggetto topico: Policewomen - History - 20th century
Policewomen - Social conditions
Feminist criminology
Sex role in the work environment
Soggetto non controllato: adult women
beat patrol
child welfare
formal integration
gender
hierarchies
legislation
physical surveillance
professional networks
respectable job
sexuality
twentieth century
undercover work
women police
youth welfare
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sommario/riassunto: Women Police examines the professional roles, identities, activities and everyday experiences of women employed within the UK police service since the First World War against a backdrop of social and cultural change.As the first in-depth historical study of women's involvement in uniform, plain-clothes and undercover policing in the period before formal integration with male officers in the 1970s, it charts the relationship between gender, surveillance and penal-welfare strategies. For much of the twentieth century women police played a 'specialist' role in the detection and prevention of child abuse and neglect, the investigation of sexual violence and, in London, the regulation of prostitution. The book shows how women officers fashioned their own 'feminine' occupational culture and style of working in relation to male colleagues, other professionals and the women and children they encountered. Jackson concludes by examining experiences at the end of the twentieth century, comparing and contrasting the differing concepts of 'equality' that have shaped women's involvement in the police service.
Titolo autorizzato: Women police  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-3027-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796422303321
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Serie: Gender in history.