Louise Jackson

Women police

Gender, welfare and surveillance in the twentieth century

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Produktbeschreibung

Women Police is the first in-depth historical study of women's involvement in uniform, plain-clothes and undercover policing in the UK. Topics covered include the regulation of prostitution, sexual violence, child abuse and neglect. T

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089107
• ISBN-10: 0719089107
• Artikelnr.: 36124998

Autorenporträt

Louise A. Jackson is Lecturer in Modern Social History in the School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Networks, structures and hierarchies 3. A respectable
job for a woman? 4. Walking the beat 5. Going undercover 6. Policing the
family: youth and welfare 7. Women, sexuality and the law 8. Beyond
integration? Bibliography Index