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NCJ 115362
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| Title:
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Why Two Women Cops Were Convicted of Cowardice (From Criminal Justice System and Women, P 427-435, 1982, Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie J Sokoloff, eds. -- See NCJ-115340)
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| Author(s):
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C Dreifus
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| Sale:
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Clark Boardman Company, Ltd
435 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
United States |
| Publication Date:
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1982 |
| Pages:
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9 |
| Type:
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Applied research |
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United States |
| Language:
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English |
| Note:
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From Ms Magazine, April 1981 |
| Annotation:
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After a strong affirmative action order in 1973, the Detroit Police Department hired one woman for every man, but in 1980 only 12 percent of the department was female, 63 percent of whom were black. |
| Abstract:
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Both blacks and women face harassment from their white, male coworkers; and the police union has shown little interest in protecting its minority members. In a 1979 case, two black female officers were accused of cowardice following an incident with a black male citizen in which a white male supervisor intervened and was himself attacked. Both were convicted on a charge of cowardice, and it took a year and three departmental trials before the conviction was overturned. Within weeks of their rehiring both were again dismissed on the basis of the city's budgetary problems -- problems that resulted in the firing of 271 women officers and the elimination of almost half the gains of the affirmative action program. (Author abstract modified) |
| Main Term(s):
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Sex discrimination |
| Index Term(s):
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Policewomen ; Racial discrimination ; Police subculture ; Michigan |
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