From Social Worker to Crimefighter: Women in United States Municipal Policing / Edition 1

by Dorothy M. Schulz

Overview

In the United States, women in policing evolved from matrons to policewomen to police officers. Today, the position of police chief has been achieved by women. The changing role of women in this traditionally male-dominated field is the subject of this book. It weaves together the history of the police and the history of women and highlights a century of change in law enforcement. The book also describes how the changing role of women in society affected their role in law enforcement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275951740
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/23/1995
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.43(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

DOROTHY MOSES SCHULZ is Professor of Law, Police Studies, and Criminal Justice Administration at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). She was the first woman captain to serve with the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Police Department and its predecessor department, the Conrail Police Department. She is the author of From Social Worker to Crimefighter: Women in United States Municipal Policing (Praeger, 1995), and has published widely on historical and current issues involving women in policing. She is a member of numerous police and academic associations, and has spoken at conferences of the International Association of Women Police, Women in Federal Law Enforcement, the National Center for Women & Policing, the Senior Women Officers of Great Britain, and the Canadian Police College.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Forerunners: The Matrons (1820-1899)
The Early Policewomen (1900-1928)
The International Association of Policewomen (1915-1932)
Women's Bureaus (1918-1928)
Depression Losses (1929-1941)
World War II and the 1940s
Paving the Way for Patrol (1950-1967)
Women Become Crimefighters (1968-1990s)
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A historical study of women in US police forces from the 1820's to the present, showing that throughout the period the demands for creating and filling the position of policewoman have almost always been forced on an unwilling municipal and police hierarchy. Explores the roots of the movement in earlier calls for jail and prison matrons and then police matrons, and describes the major influence of temperance leaders, social purity crusaders, and other women social reformers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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