Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey Shoub ◽  
Katelyn E. Stauffer ◽  
Miyeon Song
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Stops ◽  
Female Officers

Empowering Women in Blue Uniforms—Gender and Police in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanta Singh ◽  
Sultan Khan
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
The South ◽  
South African Police Service ◽  
Female Police Officers ◽  
South African Police ◽  
Female Officers

Gender in the police force has received scant attention by researchers, although there are complex social dimensions at play in how male and female law enforcement officers relate to each other in the workplace. Given the fact that males predominate in the police force, their female counterparts are often marginalised due to their sexual orientation and certain stereotypes that prevail about their femininity. Male officers perceive female officers as physically weak individuals who cannot go about their duties as this is an area of work deemed more appropriate to men. Based on this perception, female officers are discriminated against in active policing and often confined to administrative duties. This study looks at how female police officers are discriminated against in the global police culture across the globe, the logic of sexism and women’s threat to police work, men’s opposition to female police work, gender representivity in the police force, and the integration and transformation of the South African Police Service to accommodate female police officers. The study highlights that although police officers are discriminated against globally, in the South African context positive steps have been taken to accommodate them through legislative reform.

Why Promotable Female Officers Leave the Army

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alma G. Steinberg ◽  
Beverly C. Harris ◽  
Jacquelyn Scarville
Keyword(s):  
Female Officers

scholarly journals Computer says no: technology and accountability in policing traffic stops

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 167-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Kinsella ◽  
John McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Stops

scholarly journals Fashion’s Final Frontier": The Correlation of Gender Roles and Fashion in Star Trek

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-649
Author(s):  
Katharina Andres
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Original Series ◽  
Gene Roddenberry ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Female Officers ◽  
Dominant Part

Since its creation in 1966, Star Trek has been a dominant part of popular culture and as thus served as the source for many cultural references. Star Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry wanted to realize his vision of a utopia but at the same time, he used the futuristic setting of the show to comment on the present time, on ac-tual social and political circumstances. This means that each series can be regarded as a mirror image of the time in which it was created. The clothing of the characters in the different series is one part of that image. The uniforms of The Original Series show influences of the 1960s pop art movement as well as the mini-skirt trend that experienced its peak in that decade. In the course of almost 40 years, however, many things changed. In the 1990s, in Deep Space Nine and Voyager, a unisex uniform replaced the mini-dresses, with few exceptions; the colorful shirts gave way to ones that were mostly black. This trend continues into the new century. This essay interprets the evolution of the female officers’ uniforms from femi-nized dresses to androgynous clothing over the development of the series as a reflection of the change of gender roles in contemporary American society. The general functions of the female characters’ uniforms are the central object of its analysis while the few, but noteworthy exceptions to this pattern are given specific attention. Finally, one of the most intriguing lines of enquiry is, how the prequel series Enterprise, supposed to be set before The Original Series, but produced and aired from 2001 to 2005, fits in the picture.

scholarly journals Predispoziția spre structurare obsesiv-compulsivă la militari

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-86
Author(s):  
Georgiana Arseni-Trican
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Prediction Ability ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Parental Relations ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Female Officers

The main objective of this paper is to identify the combined effect of the training in the millitary (self-perceived), parental relations (self-perceived) and attachment style on soldier’s obsessive-compulsive personality structure. The secondary objectives are to find the relation between each independent variable – training in the millitary (self-perceived), parental relations (self-perceived) and attachment style – and obsessive-compulsive personality structure. The participants were 82 male officers and 12 female officers. The obtained data supported the hypotheses regarding the differences between officers from land forces academy and those from technical academy. Considering the hypotheses with reference to significant correlations and prediction ability of the independent variables on obssesive-compulsive personality structure, they were partially confirmed. Specifically, significant effects were identified only on some dimensions of obssesive-compulsive personality structure, like: hipercorectness, ritualic tendencies and verifications.

scholarly journals Racial demographics explain the link between racial disparities in traffic stops and county-level racial attitudes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierce D. Ekstrom ◽  
Joel Michel Le Forestier ◽  
Calvin K. Lai
Keyword(s):  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
County Level ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Traffic Stops ◽  
Arrest Rates ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Racial Demographics

Disparities in the treatment of Black and White Americans in police stops are pernicious and widespread. We examine racial disparities in police traffic stops by leveraging data on traffic stops from hundreds of U.S. counties from the Stanford Open Policing Project and corresponding county-level data on implicit and explicit racial attitudes from the Project Implicit research website. We find that Black-White traffic stop disparities are associated with county-level implicit and explicit racial attitudes and that this association is attributable to racial demographics: counties with a higher proportion of White residents had larger racial disparities in police traffic stops. We also examined racial disparities in several post-stop outcomes (e.g., arrest rates) and found that they were not systematically related to racial attitudes, despite evidence of disparities. These findings indicate that racial disparities in counties’ traffic stops are reliably linked to counties’ racial attitudes and demographic compositions.

May I Talk to You for a Minute? An Assessment of Street Stops and Officer Decision-Making

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872110475
Author(s):  
Rob Tillyer ◽  
Michael R. Smith ◽  
Caleb D. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Traffic Stops ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Insight Into

The overwhelming majority of research on officer-initiated contacts with civilians is drawn from traffic stops, while relatively little is known about officer decision-making during non-vehicular, street stops. The current study fills this gap by examining intrusive detentions, investigatory actions and enforcement activities undertaken by the police during street stops. Using data from a racially/ethnic diverse metropolitan area, analyses examine encounter-related variables, civilian and officer-related demographic characteristics, and contextual correlates of actions undertaken during these incidents. Conclusions drawn from this study provide specific insight into the patterns and practices of street stop encounters and offer a contribution to our broader understanding of police-civilian encounters.

Assessing Police Officers' Decision Making and Discretion in Making Traffic Stops in Savannah, Georgia, 2002

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey P. Alpert ◽  
Roger G. Dunham ◽  
Meghan Stroshine ◽  
Katherine Bennett ◽  
John MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Traffic Stops
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