Women in Control?: The Role of Women in Law Enforcement

by Frances Heidensohn

Book Overview

How far have women progressed in the "unfeminine" career of policing? How far do they want to go? How far will their male colleagues and the public let them? Women in Control? breaks new ground by discussing the role of women in relation to controlling crime and disorder. Women have struggled to gain influence in policing, progressing only slowly until the 1970s, when equal opportunities legislation brought integration and some measure of success...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198260431
• ISBN13: 9780198260431
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"