Officer force versus suspect resistance: A gendered analysis of patrol officers in an urban police department

Bazley, Thomas D.; Lersch, Kim Michelle; Mieczkowski, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2007.01.005

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“…Worden, 1993with Paoline & Terrill, 2004. Equally important, previous research has failed to resolve the contradiction because it has been uncommon (Rabe-Hemp & Schuck, 2007, p. 92), narrowly focused (Bloch & Anderson, 1974;National Center for Women and Policing, 2003a), and the results themselves are fundamentally contradictory (Bazley et al, 2007;Sklansky, 2006).…”

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“…While researchers have long been interested in the effects of citizen gender on police actions (Visher, 1983), attention has only recently been directed at the effects of officer gender on police actions (see, for instance, Archbold & Schulz, 2008;Bazley, Lersch, & Mieczkowski, 2007;Sun, 2007). The consequence is that scholars have no clear sense of the effects of officer gender on police actions.…”

Section: Limited Previous Research On the Effects Of Officer Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Worden, 1993) on the effects of officer gender. Existing scholarly arguments and research on the effects of officer gender were both contradictory (Bazley et al, 2007;Sklansky, 2006), thus, the direction of the effect of the officer gender explanatory measure was not predicted. Accordingly, the tests of significance for the officer gender explanatory measure in Table 3 and for the women police and men police coefficients comparisons in Table 4 were two tailed.…”

Section: Officer Gender Explanatory Measurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Officer gender and traffic ticket decisions: Police blue or women too?

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2009

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2009

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“…Studies in law enforcement offer the opportunity to apply this to women's adaptation in a hypermasculine institution. Research in this area has focused on women's job-related activities (Bazley et al 2007;Santos 2004) and women's experiences and reactions to the police culture (Garcia 2003;Seklecki and Keller 2008). Coincident are the seemingly conflicting findings on women's difference.…”

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“…Women's ability to complete the basic tasks necessary for their employment should come as no surprise. Nevertheless, there are noted differences in the limited frequency that women engage in confrontational behavior (Bazley et al 2007;Lunneborg 1989) and the use of unnecessary violence (Horvath 1987;Lersch and Mieczkowski 1999). Additional support is found in RabeHemp's (2008) work on the day-to-day activities of police officers.…”

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Family Leave and Law Enforcement: A Survey of Parents in U.S. Police Departments

Schulze

2010

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The women of United States police departments challenge traditional gender role expectations by exhibiting equal competence in a job with a masculine identity. Women also modify police culture in a myriad of ways, one of which is through the special work-related needs that accompany motherhood. Results from a survey of police officers suggest that gendered perceptions regarding work and family persist indicating that a value shift within police departments has occurred. Findings derived from qualitative responses suggest that women's entry in policing, along with shifting societal attitudes about work and family, could transform the institution's ''hegemonic masculinity,'' an enduring characteristic of many police departments.

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Female Police Officers and Coercion

Koski

2019

The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime

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Early research on the use of non‐excessive force and coercion by female officers indicated that women in law enforcement possessed heightened verbal communication skills, a lesser likelihood of aggressive patrol tactics, and lower involvement in the use of physical coercion than their male counterparts. These factors became important in advocating for increasing the recruitment and retention of women in policing. As the research evolved, however, more and more studies have come to find that women are equally engaged in coercive tactics and use of non‐excessive force as their male counterparts, and gender became less significant in predicting use of force and coercion than the situational and community contexts of the incident. This is an area in need of future research in order to understand better whether and how female officers “do” coercion differently.

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Officer force versus suspect resistance: A gendered analysis of patrol officers in an urban police department

Cited by 48 publications

References 20 publications

Officer gender and traffic ticket decisions: Police blue or women too?

Officer gender and traffic ticket decisions: Police blue or women too?

Family Leave and Law Enforcement: A Survey of Parents in U.S. Police Departments

Female Police Officers and Coercion

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