From Social Worker to Crimefighter Women in United States Municipal Policing

Subjects:

• Crime & Justice » Crime & Justice (general)
• History » American History (General)
• History » American History (General)
• Women's Studies » Women's Studies (General)

Reviews:

• Schulz offers a solid social history of the roles women filled in policing American communities from the 1820s through the 1980s. Not intended to be a theoretical or analytical treatment of either gender or law enforcement, it offers interesting narrative and presents with appropriate praise many actual women who faced high risks and high challenge as they sought first to improve policing and then to gain equal footing on patrol.
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  Choice
• This much-needed book will doubtless remain the authoritative work on the subject for some time and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the development of women police or, indeed, the history of social control in the United States.
  —Police History Society Journal
• Provides a distinctly balanced, eminently readable chronicle of the men and women who laid the foundation for women police officers today....[This book] should be required reading for every student of police history, every new academy student, and each and every correction and police administrator in the country....We can be grateful that Dorothy Moses Schulz has created what is sure to become the standard text on women and policing, and look forward to what this important new work engenders.
  —Law Enforcement News

• Endorsement From
  Joan Lock, police historian
  author of The British Policewoman: Her Story: Dorothy Schulz has produced a work which is not only academically sound, but is also highly readable. She begins with the, surprisingly early, enrollment of police matrons and social workers dealing solely with women and children and concludes with the acceptance of women as crimefighters on the same standing as their male colleagues. Throughout, the author properly and tellingly interweaves pertinent points from the story of the fluctuating fortunes of feminism. I have no doubt that this much needed and important book will remain the authoritative work on the subject for many years to come.
• Endorsement From
  Richard H. Ward, Professor of Criminal Justice and
  Associate Chancellor, University of Illinois, Chicago: Simply put, this is the best book on the early history of women in policing available today. The author knows her subject, and this historical account helps to set the record straight on the many contributions of women in the law enforcement field. It will be of interest to men as well as women, and to the general public as well as the criminal justice profession.
• Endorsement From
  Barbara Raffel Price, Ph.D.
  Dean of Graduate Studies
  John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Now, finally, a first-rate history on the 20th century emergence of women police has been produced. This is 'must' reading for any student of social control.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Forerunners: The Matrons (1820-1899)
• The Early Policewomen (1900-1928)
• The International Association of Policewomen (1915-1932)
• Women's Bureaus (1918-1928)
• Depression Losses (1929-1941)
• World War II and the 1940s
• Paving the Way for Patrol (1950-1967)
• Women Become Crimefighters (1968-1990s)
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index