| Women in Charge Contributor(s): Silvestri, Marisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843920468 ISBN-13: 9781843920465 Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: The number of women police in England and Wales continues to increase, and while underrepresented at senior rank level, the arrival of women at the Chief Constable level has raised the profile of their role. This is the first book to provide a detailed study of senior women police officers, and is based on extensive research which includes a wide range of in-depth interviews. Its main aims are: to trace women's progression into police leadership; to develop an understanding of the way women leaders can bring about change through developing new styles and conceptualizations of leadership; to assess the extent to which senior policewomen are working to make gender and equality issues visible and central to organizational agenda; and to situate the issue of women's leadership in policing in the broader context of debates around police diversity, changes in policing tasks, and issues of corruption, community and race relations and crime and clear-up rates. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 363.208 |
| LCCN: 2004555038 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.08 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is concerned with the gendered world of police leadership at a time when calls are being made for a different kind of police leader to guide the organisation through the twenty-first century. Drawing on in-depth interviews carried out with senior policewomen across a range of police forces in England and Wales, Women in Charge is the first book to provide a detailed study of women in police leadership. The work challenges existing conceptualisations and theorisations of police culture for the study of police leaders, demonstrating the various ways in which police cultures are shaped by both rank and gender. Women in police leadership face a different kind of gendered environment than their non-managerial counterparts, one in which a 'smart macho' culture of police management dominates. At the same time this book investigates the extent to which senior policewomen are involved in developing new styles and conceptualisations of leadership. It argues that women are involved in promoting a different kind of police leadership, using more consultative and holistic styles - styles not traditionally associated with the police organisation. |