Gender & Policing - Case Study: Differential Deployment Flashcards
1
Q
Gender segregation within the
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Police
2
Q
Women Over-represented in what units?
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Domestic violence
Family protection
3
Q
Female officers concentrated in…
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‘Welfare’ based work to some degree
4
Q
Idea that ‘driving, shooting and fighting’ remain
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Male dominated
5
Q
WESTMAARLAND 2001 argues that there has been
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Some change
6
Q
Linked to attitudes that women were
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‘Unsuited’ for some policing tasks e.g. far fewer in specialist units such as firearms
7
Q
Differential deployment demonstrated the existing…
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Discrimination attitudes
