1st Edition

Women in Charge

By Marisa Silvestri Copyright 2004
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Willan

This book is concerned with the gendered world of police leadership at a time when calls are being made for a different kind of police leader to guide the organisation through the twenty-first century. Drawing on in-depth interviews carried out with senior policewomen across a range of police forces in England and Wales, Women in Charge is the first book to provide a detailed study of women in... Read more
1. Introduction  2. The police organisation: a gendered site  3. Rethinking organisational change  4. The making of police leaders  5. Doing leadership  6. Being in the sisterhood (with no sisters)  7. Conclusion

Biography

Marisa Silvestri is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University.