History in blue: 160 years of women police, sheriffs, detectives, and state troopers

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (04) ◽  
pp. 48-2383-48-2383
Keyword(s):  
State Troopers ◽  
Women Police

Women Police Surgeons

BMJ ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 1 (5115) ◽  
pp. 175-175
Author(s):  
J. H. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Women Police

Points: Women police surgeons for rape victims

BMJ ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 293 (6546) ◽  
pp. 568-568
Author(s):  
S. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Rape Victims ◽  
Women Police

Mainstream Superhero Comics and Gendered Representations of Social Control

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope Hutchins
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Women Police Officers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Media Constructions ◽  
Women Police

In the context of increasing familiarity with mainstream superhero comics and their characters, a wide range of readers are being exposed to the values regarding gender and social control being communicated in this genre. Therefore, it is important to assess whether social control is signified differently for males and females in superhero comics. This presentation will begin with a discussion of why it is important to study comics and graphic novels. I will then outline the concept of social control and criminological theories centered on this idea before demonstrating why superheroes may be understood as agents of social control. This will bring me to a discussion of preliminary findings of a qualitative content analysis of issues of Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Ms Marvel, Justice League of America, and New Avengers comics released from May to October 2007. In examining the leadership positions, the formal and informal methods employed, those over whom social control is exercised, and relative success of each superhero in these issues, I am seeking to assess whether social control is portrayed as being exercised by male and female superheroes in different ways and to identify how this happens. The results of this content analysis will be compared with previous studies of women police officers to assess whether representations of female agents of social control in superhero comics are consistent with the experiences of real‐life criminal justice practitioners. Finally, the reasons for and implications of the nature of such media constructions will be briefly explored to encourage other students to study comics and graphic novels.

scholarly journals INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POLICE RECRUITS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN THE HOST ENVIRONMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-303
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Semerikova
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
New Members ◽  
Host Environment ◽  
Women Police ◽  
Working And Living Conditions

The article presents the results of the study of individual psychological characteristics of adaptive behavior of recruit men and women police officers. The study develops theoretical knowledge on the problems of adaptation of new members of police, expands the boundaries of the problem field; the empirical data clarify ideas about the features of adaptation of employees in the host environment depending on gender. In the course of the empirical study, depending on gender, differences in individual psychological characteristics of adaptive behavior of newly appointed employees of the low enforcement agencies bodies were revealed. This may determine the specifics of their entry into the host environment. Newly appointed policewomen employees with impaired adaptive behavior are characterized by a higher rejection of professional activity than men, unacceptable working and living conditions, a feeling of constant anxiety in the process of social interaction, but less negative attitude to life.

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