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Pursuing Gender Diversity in Police Organizations in the 1990s: A Longitudinal Analysis of Factors Associated With the Hiring of Female Officers
- Source :
- Police Quarterly. 9:463-485
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2006.
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Abstract
- This article examines the relevance of a number of factors presumed to be associated with the employment of female police officers in U.S. municipal law enforcement agencies. Female officer representation is investigated with respect to three primary race/ethnic groups in mind: Caucasians, African Americans, and Hispanics. This study utilizespanel data collected during the period from 1993 to 2000 on a representative sample of police departments serving populations of 25,000+ residents distributed across the United States. A noteworthy increase in the number of female officers did occur during the decade of the 1990s, and both internal departmental and external environmental influences on the hiring of female police officers were investigated. The major finding observed is that different sets of external and internal features have an influence on the hiring of women officers in each race/ethnic group.
- Subjects :
- Gender diversity
05 social sciences
Ethnic group
Criminology
Municipal law
0506 political science
Representation (politics)
Officer
Race (biology)
050602 political science & public administration
050501 criminology
Enforcement
Psychology
Law
Social psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
0505 law
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1552745X and 10986111
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Police Quarterly
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e3d5cacf9bf6652ae71fdea7426330d7