1. The Sociology of Gender; 2. Ideology and Images of Women and Policing; 3. Past and Current Status of Women Police in the Eastern Hemisphere; 4. Past and Current Status of Women Police in the Western Hemisphere; 5. Recruitment, Training, and Promotion of Women in the Gendered Police Organization; 6. Gendered Policing: Working Conditions and Gender-Based Violence; 7. Revisiting the Police Organization: Future Directions
Venessa Garcia, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at New Jersey City University. She has served as Deputy Editor and Editorial Board Member of Feminist Criminology since 2005. She has published extensively in the area of women in law enforcement, victims of crime, and media and crime. Her latest book is Women Police Across the Globe: Shared Challenges and Successes in the Integration of Women Police Worldwide (2020, edited with Cara Rabe-Hemp).
"This book is a long-overdue global account of how policing is
gendered wherever it occurs as known through myriad studies about
women and policing since the 1970s. Garcia takes a bird’s eye view
of the facts on the ground, in addition to conducting original
research, and shows that gender difference and gender
stratification within police forces form the dominant themes in
policing and gender across societies. By exploring the police
subculture of institutionalized masculinity and its emanation
across time and space, she provides a compelling explanation for
why women are almost universally underrepresented in police forces,
marginalized and rejected by other officers, and often relegated to
gender-restricted duties. This is an important work that calls
attention to a profession that exhibits more barriers to gender
balance than most. Garcia asks police reformers to take seriously
comprehensive policies that would achieve gender equity and provide
pathways for women in policing through deliberate programs of
recruitment, training, mentorship, and protection from sexual
harassment. With less than one in ten police officers in the world
being non-male on average, this book is a timely clarion call and a
significant contribution to police studies."
—Staci Strobl, Professor, Criminal Justice, UW-Platteville"Venessa
Garcia has produced a remarkable book filling a vacuum in the
current literature on women in policing by providing a panoramic
account across five continents combining historic, cultural,
geo-political and sociological analyses. With meticulous research
unearthing previously uncharted details of the origins of women's
entry into policing in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin
America combined with supporting contemporary statistics and
enriched by personal interviews with former officers, this is a
model of comparative analysis. The framing of the position of women
in a wider context, enables a deeper understanding of the police
occupational culture not only to explain the subordination of
female officers but also providing the template for radical police
reform."
—Jennifer Brown, Visiting Professor at Mannheim Centre for
Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political
Science"Women in Policing around the World is a much needed and
timely addition to police literature. The police profession is
currently under severe assault, based on claims of racism and
brutality; however, police organizations across the globe also have
a long history of discrimination and sexual harassment against its
female employees. This book sheds a very bright light on the
decades’ long institutional injustices from the historical as well
as sociological perspective up to 2020, where policewomen are still
treated as inferior to their male counterparts.The way the author
approaches the problem, from a global and comparative perspective,
addressing issues of prescribed roles that, frequently, drive
decisions about recruitment, training and promotions, is extremely
compelling and creates a picture of a sisterhood in misery. It is a
must read for scholars who focus on gender roles and
discrimination, police culture and police ethics but, first and
foremost, for all the law enforcement practitioners who aspire to
change, in a transformational manner, police organizational
cultures regardless of the size or geographic location of their
departments."
—Maria (Maki) Haberfeld, Professor of Police Science, John Jay
College of Criminal Justice"The research Garcia collected reveals
that mentoring within the police organization increases job
performance, growth, and job satisfaction. In addition to providing
promotional opportunities, Garcia emphasizes the necessity of
reform in police culture by providing suggestions on how to improve
the work conditions of our women in blue around the world. This
publication focuses on various aspects of women in law enforcement
and women who struggle to find equality within society. It is the
most comprehensive work on women police around and is a must-read
for anyone in the field."
—Caitlyn Tannu, New Jersey City University, ASC Division on Women
and Crime, DivisioNews, Spring 2022 Issue
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