Women and the Criminal Justice System

Wormer, Katherine Stuart van; Bartollas, Clemens

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“…At the same time, male officers perceive women as worse in performing tasks that are traditionally male-oriented including beat patrols, covering political rallies, specialist squads, VIP security duties, escorting male prisoners and sentry duty. Perhaps, these perceptions can partly be attributed to a police culture in which physical strength, control, superiority and power still define policing (Westmarland, 2001; Wormer and Bartollas, 2000).…”

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“…Study after study shows that female police officers are not only as competent as their male colleagues, but also less likely to use excessive force against citizens (Brandl and Stroshine, 2013; Paoline and Terrill, 2004; Rabe-Hemp, 2008), receive fewer complaints from citizens (Porter and Prenzler, 2017), are less likely to die by suicide (Wormer and Bartollas, 2000), and are much less involved in misconduct than are male police officers (Greene et al, 2004; Lersch, 1998). Studies have also informed that women have better emotional intelligence than men, which is a quite important trait that is needed for modern-day policing (Jadhav and Havalappanavar, 2009; Joseph and Newman, 2010; Ward and Prenzler, 2016).…”

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Gender equity approach to policing in Kenya: Lessons, challenges and prospects

Onyango¹,

Natarajan

2021

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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Despite ample evidence of women's value, ensuring gender equity–equality is a major challenge for police departments worldwide. Using survey data gathered from a sample of 455 male and female police officers in the Kenya Police Service, this study examines the non-western plights of women in policing and describes a theory change to formulate gender-equity strategies for improved recruitment and retention of women in police service. Findings indicate that women officers can undertake most tasks better than or to the same degree as men, except for a small proportion of line duties, mirroring the literature on women in policing internationally. However, family commitments, an emphasis on physical strength for promotion, performance based on male standards, and male supervisors’ attitudes present severe challenges for women in the police service, reflecting the organizational climate and prevailing cultural norms. Implications for theory, policy and research are discussed.

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Gender equity approach to policing in Kenya: Lessons, challenges and prospects

Onyango¹,

Natarajan

2021

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…In the English language, we used a script [ 38 ] to count the syllables. First, we tested the script with N = 9,107 common words ( https://en-syllables.latic.software/ ).…”

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LATIC–A linguistic analyzer for text and item characteristics

2022

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Analyzing texts and items regarding their linguistic features might be important for researchers to investigate the effects of the linguistic presentation as well as for practitioners to estimate the readability of a text or an item. The Linguistic Analyzer for Text and Item Characteristics (LATIC) is a software that enables users to analyze texts and items more efficiently. LATIC offers a multitude of features at three different reading levels and can be used for texts and items in four different languages: English, French, German, and Spanish. It is open source, free to use and designed to be user-friendly. In this study, we investigated LATIC’s performance: LATIC achieves highly accurate results, while being extremely time saving compared to human raters. While developing LATIC, the respective features are tested continuously to ensure a high accuracy of results in the future.

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“…Women in policing also face the dilemma of work-life balance, and the gender role expectations of her society. Women officers tend to bear the responsibility for childcare and domestic duties within their households (van Wormer & Bartollas, 2000). In a study to understand when and why individuals reduce their work efforts for the sake of family life, Maume (2006) found that in dual-earner households, women impose more job trade-offs in response to the husband's work effort, while men's work restrictions were generally unresponsive to familial characteristics and changes.…”

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Women in Power? Examining Gender and Promotion in Policing Through an Organizational Perspective

Alexander

Nowacki

2021

Feminist Criminology

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Women bring important strengths to the field of policing, such as communication skills, the ability to lead teams, as well as the ability to coach and nurture subordinates. Despite these contributions, the rate of women entering policing has stagnated in recent years, and the percentage of women in supervisory, command, and leadership positions remains low. To explain this, we use an organizational structure perspective to explore how characteristics of police agencies (e.g., department size, officer demographics, and formalization) may influence the promotion of women to leadership positions. We make suggestions regarding hiring and retention and provide recommendations for further research.

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Women and the Criminal Justice System

Cited by 11 publications

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Gender equity approach to policing in Kenya: Lessons, challenges and prospects

Gender equity approach to policing in Kenya: Lessons, challenges and prospects

LATIC–A linguistic analyzer for text and item characteristics

Women in Power? Examining Gender and Promotion in Policing Through an Organizational Perspective

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