Doing justice, doing gender : women in legal and criminal justice occupations /: women in legal and criminal justice occupations. (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan Ehrlich Martin, Nancy C. Jurik.
• Other Names: Martin, Susan Ehrlich; Jurik, Nancy C
• 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: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks, Calif : Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages)
• Subjects: 364.973; Policewomen -- United States; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Women correctional personnel -- United States; Women lawyers -- United States; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; Policewomen; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration; Women correctional personnel; Women lawyers; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452222738; 1452222738; 9781452204185; 1452204187
• Related ISBNs: 141292720X; 1412927218; 9781412927208; 9781412927215
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index.
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