TY - BOOK ID - 78437087 TI - Women police PY - 2006 SN - 1526130270 9781526130273 0719073901 9780719073908 0719089107 PB - Manchester DB - UniCat KW - Sex role in the work environment. KW - Feminist criminology. KW - Policewomen KW - Industrial sociology KW - Sex discrimination in employment KW - Sexual harassment KW - Work environment KW - Criminology KW - Female police officers KW - Police women KW - Women police officers KW - Police KW - Social conditions. KW - History KW - Feminist criminology KW - Sex role in the work environment KW - Social conditions KW - Policewomen - History - 20th century KW - Policewomen - Social conditions KW - adult women. KW - beat patrol. KW - child welfare. KW - formal integration. KW - gender. KW - hierarchies. KW - legislation. KW - physical surveillance. KW - professional networks. KW - respectable job. KW - sexuality. KW - twentieth century. KW - undercover work. KW - women police. KW - youth welfare. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78437087 AB - 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. ER -