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Police Cultures
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- 1Research found that values of the force are based on masculine solidarity, inclduing supporting other officers, the glamorisation of violence and the importance of physical courage Amounts to a 'cult of masculinity'Smith & Gray, 1985
- 2Cop culture is a defensive mechanism employed due to a perceived danger of having authority challenged. Functional means of bonding officers in difficult situations.Waddington, 1999
- 3Police carve out their own culture for policing and take an active role in developing, reinforcing and transforming cultural knowledge and institutionalised practice.Chad, 1997
- 4Internal opposition due to fear of women carrying a negative symbolic capital in terms of the image of the police.Chan et al, 2010
- 574% of female officers had been sexually harassed. This includes jokes, innuendos & touching as part of competitive male horseplay.Heidensohn, 2008
- 6Women more likely that men to experience sexual comments about physical appearance, sexually explicit jokes, be pestered for unwanted dates be touched, stroked or pinched or be subject to a serious sexual assault.Brown, 1998
- 7Men in male dominated jobs do not know how to react to a woman in an equivalent job, resulting in them feeling more comfortable treating her in terms of her sex role.Popovich, 1988
- 8Smaller numbers of women in the force result in them being given a token status making it easier to single them out and thus be negatively stereotyped.Brown, 1998
- 9Women reported feeling that they had to work harder than their male counterparts to prove themselves. Physical prowess is the determinative criterion of worth.Souhami, 2014
- 10Male officers did not think police work was suited to women. Concerned of: - A need to protect in violent situations - Burden/DistractionChan et al, 2010
- 11Women must accept their biological inferiority or strive to overcome it by becoming the 'manly' police woman.Chan et al, 2010
- 12Study found that female officers were routinely referred to as 'girls', a term now widely recognised as infantilising and belittling women's competence and authority.Martin, 2006
- 13Women make up 1/3 recruits but tend to hold position in lower ranks/supportive functions. - Exacerbated by lack of flexible working, part time work & lack of support for networking.Heidensohn, 2008
- 14Women tend to be allocated tasks that are perceived to require compassion & emotion whilst cases of conflict are left to men.Heidensohn, 2008
- 15Expectations of women as wives and mothers transfer from a domestic to a work setting where women continue to be given care based tasks.Brown, 1998
- 16Gendered division of labour reproduces the wider gendered order of society.Chan et al, 2010
- 17Gender division of labour is reflective of personal choice.Westmarland, 2001
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