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Women in law enforcement professions have had a tough road, although there has been much progress. Despite the inroads women have made as police officers, there remain many challenges. For this assignment, discuss four contemporary challenges women in policing continue to fight. For each challenge, discuss potential solutions.
The paper should be a balanced presentation with equal attention paid to challenges and solutions. FOR EACH CHALLENGE DESCRIBED A SOLUTION MUST BE INCLUDED.
DIRECTIONS:
a. address all relevant issues for each topic
b. organize logically
c. proof-read for spelling/grammatical errors
d. at least 4 outside sources (sources other than course textbook), cited within the text of the paper and as a works cited at the end of the paper. Wiki sources are not acceptable.
e. content: minimum 10 pages in length, no longer than 13
f. double-spaced, 10-12 point font, standard 1 inch margins
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Running Head: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES WOMEN IN POLICING CONTINUE TO
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Contemporary Challenges Women in Policing Continue to face
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES WOMEN IN POLICING CONTINUE TO FACE
Contemporary Challenges Women in Policing Continue to face
In the past hundred years, there have been numerous changes in the police
department, and more so in matters about the women police force. Women police officers
mostly get minor tasks such as patrolling dance halls of more of motherly duties rather than
those that are requiring them to do patrols such as their male counterparts. Policing force
generally almost if not all over the world has been undergoing various and numerous
challenges. Looking into Desmond, M. & Valdez, N. 2013), the subject of un-policing urban
centres for the poor in the society, has come about as third-party consequences affecting for
inner city type of women in the force. The above has been subject as an American review in
sociological and current societal moral, cultural, upbringing and psychological standpoints.
Challenges in this sector of service cut across all aspects of life. Problems such as will be put
into perspective, are no respecter of persons, and they mostly indiscriminately persecute and
touch the women police officers regardless of race, ethnicity, tribe, societal respect or police
force rank. These types of challenges are what they continually undergo. As will be discussed
below, these challenges get dissected, and possible solutions and mitigation strategies
explained.
Several studies carried out by scholars and researchers in the late 1980s alluded that
by the turning of the 21st century, there were excellent chances that the number of women in
the law enforcement field would have reached a soaring 51 per cent, out of the possible 100
per cent wholesome number. These predictions were so overwhelming in such a way that in
some quotas, it gets believed with so much zeal and anticipation. In the real sense, that can
get seen from different police forces all around the world, the latter predictions never actually
materialised.
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES WOMEN IN POLICING CONTINUE TO FACE
Using the United States of America a basis for the above argument, in the year 2008,
in accordance to the department known as the Census Bureau, there were approximately
884,000 male police officers, and a lower 99,000 policewomen who were women. In contrast,
the above figures represent 11 per cent of the police force. Belief systems in most cases are
what have put these numbers at an all-time low. For example, according to Dick &
Jankowicz, D. (2001), social constructionist account of the underlying police culture and its
effecting influence on the level of representation on the progression of women viewpoints is
an issue that requires stakeholders’ interventions. The above looks a grid analysis in the
United Kingdom police force area. Women since the beginning of time have been viewed as
the weaker sex. The above puts the prejudice that only men deserve to work in the police
force. Translation of this prejudice directs most recruitment processes and tasks. During
recruitment, most of those first given a chance to advance to the next levels are in many
cases, their male counterparts. The question is why this has gotten accepted as the nom.
Normalcy accepted is justice denied.
Prejudice in the acceptance of women into the police workforce is a contemporary
issue that can be addressed using several modes of operations. Implementation is what first is
necessary, and is partly broken down. Hastily putting these modules of activities into practice
might in one way or the other put strain on the police system, which in return, will lower the
main goal intended. The goal being, increasing women numbers present in all levels of the
police force. Waters, J. A., & Ussery, W. (2007), point to various contributing factors in
relation to historical prejudices, their contributing factors, interventions and subsequent
symptoms. In this mode of thinking and statistical data, women police officers need to be
ascertained with a larger appreciation in accordance to the police management, stratified and
strategic policies accorded and implemented.
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A mind-set change should be the onset of every module implementation. Mindset
change must start from the way down, as one is climbing the ladder. The latter means that
from the beginning women empowerment should be one of the priorities. ...