Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements

Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements is a collection of essays by expert contributors from across the globe that explores and grapples with issues of recruitment, deployment, promotion, equity, integration strategies, management, conduct, policing styles, race and ethnicity, and specialisation. It provides practical exemplars for police managers and professionals involved in gender-equity programmes and advanced-level research.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 162 pages
Publication date: 23 June 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements is a comprehensive edited collection that delves into the current challenges, innovative approaches, and remarkable achievements in gender integration within policing across various subject domains and geographical locations. Comprising essays written by esteemed experts from around the world, the book encompasses a wide range of topics, including jurisdictional accomplishments (such as South Africa, the British Isles, Scandinavian countries, Australia), women in leadership roles (achievements, methods, merit and affirmative action issues), performance comparisons (conduct, ethics, peacebuilding), intersectionality (particularly focusing on Indigenous women), and women's police stations (such as in Argentina). The book aims to explore and address critical issues related to recruitment, deployment, and promotion; barriers to equity; effective integration strategies; management, conduct, and policing styles; race and ethnicity; and specialization. It serves as an invaluable resource, offering practical exemplars for police managers engaged in gender-equity programs and professionals involved in advanced-level research, teaching, and consulting.

The book explores and grapples with issues of recruitment,deployment and promotion; obstacles to equity; effective integration strategies; management,conduct and policing styles; race and ethnicity; and specialisation.

It is an essential resource providing practical exemplars for police managers involved in gender-equity programmes and for professionals involved in advanced-level research,teaching and consulting.

Weight: 356g
Dimension: 177 x 254 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032251585