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Book SynopsisPolicing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape of women's experiences of their contact with the official state police between 1800 and 1950 in the Western world.
Drawing on and going beyond existing knowledge about policing practices, the volume discusses how women encountered the official police, how they experienced that contact, and the outcomes of that contact in the modern Western world. In so doing, it is an original and much needed addition to the literature around changes in policing, women's experiences of the criminal justice system, and women's experiences of control and regulation. The chapters uncover such experiences in a range of countries across Europe, the USA, Canada, and Australia. Importantly, the collection focuses upon a crucial epoch in the history of policing a 150-year period when policing was rapidly changing and being increasingly placed on a formal level. Bringing together scholarly work from expert contributo
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"As the position of women in the world undergoes perhaps more scrutiny than ever, there isn't a better time to situate the present through an analysis of the past. Policing Women shines an important light on women's actual experiences of being policed across the Western world. These fascinating histories (all based upon original empirical research) serve to illuminate issues around power, identity and control, yet also dispel many of the complacent assumptions about gender and offending."
Dr. Sarah Charman, University of Portsmouth
"This volume is a valuable and multifaceted analysis of how women actually behaved versus expectations of how women should behave, and of the diverse and sometimes contradictory ways that police officers treated women in relation to those expectations. It balances legal analysis and statistics with lively and illuminating examples of brawling, insults, and thefts. The authors make detailed and significant use of local and regional records."
Professor Joanne Klein, Boise State University
Table of ContentsIntroduction
SECTION 1: Gender, Attitudes and Policing
1. Policing women in urban Scotland c.1890-1950
LOUISE JACKSON AND RIAN SUTTON
2. Policing women and girls in Canada from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth Century
TAMARA MYERS
3. Policing Australian Women: beyond Sex and Secrets
ALANA PIPER
SECTION 2: Space, Place and Social Control
4. The policing of female drunkenness in two northern English boroughs, c.1869-1875
CRAIG STAFFORD
5. The policing of women in the northwest of England, 1856-1901
GUY WOOLNOUGH
6. Women, police, and social control in Bologna between the eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century
SANNE MUURLING
7. ‘A Very Friendly Feeling Which is Perfectly Natural’: police and sex workers in progressive era Baltimore
KATIE M. HEMPHILL
SECTION 3: Police Culture, Practice and Identity
8. ‘It would be a great evil to let so bad a Character … go at large’: convict women and the Irish police, the 1860s-1900
ELAINE FARRELL
9. Character and crime: police classification of female offenders in late nineteenth century England
JO TURNER
10. ‘I don’t care about you, I’ll write to the procurer!’ Women’s threats, insults, and violence against policemen, 1863-1913
MARION PLUSKOTA
SECTION 4: Mobility, Migration and Race
11. Policing migrant women: patterns of mobility, control and expulsion in the German Empire, 1870-1914
BEATE ALTHAMMER
12. Policing emancipation: white law enforcer sexual violence against Black women in the reconstruction US South, 1865-1877
ELIZABETH M. BARNES
13. ‘Where are the Race Police Women?’ African American policewomen in the Black press and on the beat in early twentieth-century America
ELIZABETH EVENS
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