An edition of Doing justice, doing gender
(1996)
Doing justice, doing gender
women in legal and criminal justice occupations
2nd ed.
by Susan Ehrlich Martin and Nancy C. Jurik
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Women correctional personnel, Policewomen, Women lawyers, Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration, Sex discrimination, Women's studies, Social Science, Sociology, Criminology, Penology, Women's Studies - General, Social Science / Criminology, United States, Personnel feminin, Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice penale, Avocates, Policieres, Services correctionnelsPlaces
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Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations
2012, SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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Doing justice, doing gender: women in legal and criminal justice occupations
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Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations (Women in the Criminal Justice System)
October 27, 2006, Sage Publications, Inc
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Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations (Women in the Criminal Justice System)
November 7, 2006, Sage Publications, Inc
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Doing Justice, Doing Gender
2006, SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction : changes in criminal justice, occupations, and women in the workplace
The CJS : mission, processes, and workforce
Historical context of women in justice occupations
Legal changes
Equal employment opportunity law
Sexual harassment law
Pregnancy and family leave
Systemic reforms and expanded opportunities for women
Women and today's justice occupations
Contents of the second edition of this book
A note on perspective and terminology
Endnotes
2. Explanations for gender inequality in the workplace
Categorical approaches to gender inequality at work
Women and men as essentially the same : gender roles and gender-neutral organizations
Equality as sameness
Men and women as different : equality as difference
Calls for radical economic and cultural change
Challenging gender dichotomies : gender as process
Our approach : the social construction of gender in the workplace
Doing gender : gender as a routine interactional accomplishment
Gender as structured interaction
Doing gender in work organizations
Links between the family and the workplace
The gendered state
Gendered labor markets
Gendered work organizations
Division of labor in work organizations
Culture and sexuality in work organizations
Workplace interactions and identities
Gendered organizational logic
Summary
Endnotes
3. The nature of police work and women's entry into law enforcement
An historical overview : from matron to chief
Preliminary phase : 1840-1910
The specialist phase : 1910 to 1972
From "policewoman" to chief : changes since 1972
Police crisis of the 1960s
The women's movement
Legal changes : legislation and judicial interpretation
The impact of research
The increasing representation of women in police work
The nature of policing : scope of work and occupational culture
Nature of the work
The police officer's "working personality"
Occupational culture
Recent trends in policing and their implications for women and persons of color
Community-oriented policing
Terrorism and other disasters
Civilianization and privatization
The police culture and men's opposition to women officers
The logic of sexism and women's threat to police work
Women's threat to the public image and citizen "respect"
Women's threat to group solidarity and men's identity
Barriers to women officers : interaction, ideology, and images
Interactional dilemmas
The sexualized workplace
The intersections of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender
Summary
Endnotes
4. Women officers encountering the gendered police organization
Gendered organizational logic : policies and practices
Gender and selection
Gender and training
The training academy
Field training and patrol : cycles of success and failure
Gendered assignment patterns
Performance evaluations
Gendered organizational logic and women's occupational mobility
Moving up : women and promotion
Family-related policies and practices
Uniforms and appearance : formalizing gendered images
Doing gender on the street : dilemmas of police-citizen encounters
Gender and police work
Doing gender in patrol work
Using gender
Women's response : adaptations, costs, and survival strategies
Attitudes toward police work and on-the-job behavior
Police work, discrimination, and stress
Turnover : adapting by leaving
Coping strategies, adaptations, and work styles
Meshing personal and occupational lives
Summary
Endnotes
5. Women entering the legal profession : change and resistance
Historical overview : barriers to women in law before 1970
Changing laws and job queues : opening legal practice to women
Changing labor queues and demographics in the legal profession
Changes in the type and nature of legal employment
The changing legal environment
Women lawyers using the new laws
Challenging discriminatory practices : gender bias task forces
Lawyers' jobs, specialties, and the division of legal labor
The organization and work of lawyers
Private law practice
In-house counsel and corporate law
Women and men in government work
The judiciary
Law school teaching
Gendered legal occupational culture and barriers to women
Summary
Endnotes
6. The organizational logic of the gendered legal world and women lawyers' responses
Gender bias in law school and its impact on the learning environment
Gender bias in the firm, office, and agency
Partnership and gender
Gender differences in income
Other gender differences in practice
The impact of gender bias on women attorneys in court and beyond
Sexual harassment
Undermining women lawyers' credibility in the courtroom
Men's perceptions of gender bias
Organizational logic and limiting opportunity structures
Organizational logic, gendered job recruitment, and the hiring process
Gender barriers to a judgeship
Barriers to law school tenure
Women's responses to gender bias : adaptation and innovation
Women's bar associations and gender bias task forces
Feminist jurisprudence and legal action
The time crunch : meshing work and family life
Marriage and children
Reshaping the profession : work-family balance and quality of life
Summary
Endnotes
7. Women in corrections : advancement and resistance
History of women in corrections : 1860s to 1960s
Social change and changing queues for women COs in the 1970s
Socio-legal changes and women COs
Inmate suits and pressures for prison reform
Prison reform ethos and changing labor and job queues for women COs
Inmate rights to privacy and equal work opportunities
Women's movement into CO jobs in men's prisons : 1970s to present
Characteristics of women COs in men's prisons
CO jobs as a resource for doing gender
The nature of work in corrections
CO work cultures and masculinity
Sites of struggle : gendered interactions, gendered identities
Men inmates and women COs
Men coworker, supervisor, and subordinate resistance
Sexual harassment and women COs
Resistance from women coworkers, family, and friends
Proponents of women COs : alternative gendered identities
Summary
8. Gendered organizational logic and women CO response
Gendered, racialized, sexualized, and embodied prison organizations
Racialized prisons
Prisons as gendered
Prisons as sexualized
Sexual harassment policies and the gendered organization
Corrections as embodied work and women as embodied workers
Promoting equality in prison organizations : a case example
Social context and the shifting organizational logic of corrections
Conflicting correctional organizational directives
Inadequate implementation of human service and affirmative action reforms
Prison organizational logic and women's careers
Preemployment experience and training
Work assignments
Performance evaluations and promotions
Women's performance : adaptation and innovations
Work-related attitudes
Job performance
Work styles : adaptation and innovations
The costs : stress and turnover
Organizational movements for change
Summary
9. Doing justice, doing gender today and tomorrow : occupations, organizations, and change
Our theoretical approach : a recap
Comparison of opportunities, barriers, and women's responses
Similarities in women's opportunities and barriers
Differences in opportunities, barriers, and responses
Do women make a difference?
Women's responses to barriers
Gender, job perspectives, and performance in justice occupations
Women's collective responses
Women's contribution and the future
Building feminist theory and policy.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-255) and index.
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