1st Edition
Gender Inclusive Policing Challenges and Achievements
Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements is an edited collection focused on current challenges, innovations and positive achievements in gender integration in policing in different subject domains and locations. Comprised of essays by expert contributors from across the globe, the book covers a variety of topics including jurisdictional achievements (South Africa, British Isles, Scandinavian countries, Australia), women in leadership (achievements and methods, merit and affirmative action issues), performance comparisons (conduct, ethics, peacebuilding), intersectionality (Indigenous women) and women’s police stations (Argentina). The book explores and grapples with issues of recruitment, deployment and promotion; obstacles to equity; effective integration strategies; management, conduct and policing styles; race and ethnicity; and specialisation.
It is an essential resource providing practical exemplars for police managers involved in gender-equity programmes and for professionals involved in advanced-level research, teaching and consulting.
Preface
Tim Prenzler
1. In the Forefront of Female Policing?: Women in the Scandinavian Police Forces
Silje Fekjær and Andreea Alecu
2. Gender-based Reforms in Kenyan Policing – Reflection
Resila A. Onyango and Mangai Natarajan
3. Advances in Gender Equity in British Policing
Wendy Laverick and Emma Cunningham
4. State-Rebuilding and Equity: Women in the South African Police Service
Elrena van der Spuy and Rita Retief
5. Policing in Conflict: Women and the Afghan National Police
Melissa Jardine, Fatima Kashefi, Kawsar Abulfazil and Oana Neagu
6. Affirmative Action Recruitment Strategies in Australian Policing: Three Case Studies
Tim Prenzler and Jacqueline M. Drew
7. Police Stations for Women and Families in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jess Rodgers, Kerry Carrington, María Victoria Puyol, Máximo Sozzo and Vanessa Ryan
8. Overcoming Barriers of Gender and Race in Policing: Australian and New Zealand Examples
Sheena Fleming, Tim Prenzler and Janet Ransley
9. Women in Police Leadership: Making Rank as a Marker of Progress?
Marisa Silvestri, Jennifer Brown and Jenny Fleming
10. Issues of Merit and Affirmative Action in Police Promotion Systems
Jacqueline M. Drew and Carol A. Archbold
11. Gender and Police Officer Attitudes towards Ethical Behaviour
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Michael E. Meyer and Maria (Maki) Haberfeld
12. Male/Female Differences in Behavioural Indicators of Police Integrity
Tim Prenzler, Tyler Cawthray and Louise Porter
13. Women, Policing, and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict States
Loene M. Howes
14. Learning the Lessons: Developing a Model Program for Gender-Inclusive Policing
Tim Prenzler and Jacqueline M. Drew
Biography
Tim Prenzler is a Professor of Criminology in the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. His research interests include crime and corruption prevention, police and security officer safety, security industry regulation and gender equity in policing. His books include Regulating the Security Industry: Global Perspectives (2018, Routledge, with Mahesh Nalla), Civilian Oversight of Police: Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement (2016, Taylor & Francis, with Garth den Heyer) and 100 Years of Women Police in Australia (2015, Australian Academic Press).
