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Women and Men Police Officers Status, Gender, and Personality
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Gwendolyn L. Gerber
ISBN: 0-275-96749-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96749-9
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2001
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £79.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Challenging traditional beliefs about gender, Gerber develops a new model for understanding gender--the status model of gender stereotyping. She examines how expectations about status and gender impact police offers who work together as partners. Her study includes same-sex police partnerships as well as partnerships in which a woman works with a man.

Interviews with police officers highlight the findings from Gerber's large-scale study of police partnerships. She explores what underlies gender stereotyping--why men appear to have more assertive or instrumental personality traits and women appear to have more accommodating or expressive traits. According to Gerber's status model, instrumental traits are associated with high status, and expressive traits are associated with low status; therefore, men and women only appear to have different personality traits because men have higher status than women. The book provides a provocative analysis for scholars and researchers in gender studies, criminal justice, psychology, and sociology, as well as for those involved in the supervision and training of police.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Women and Men in Policing
    The Status Model of Gender Stereotyping
    Status Characteristics Theory and the Gender-Stereotyped Personality Traits
    Description of the Study: The Sample of Police Partners and Measures
    Status and Personality: The Dominating, Instrumental, and Expressive Traits
    Coping with Low Status: The Verbal-Aggressive and Submissive Traits
    Police Officers Who Violate Gender Norms: The Bipolar Traits
    Self-Esteem: The Impact of Status and Personality Traits
    The Patterning of Traits within Individual Personality
    Status, Gender, and Personality: Towards an Integrated Theory
    Implications for Policing
    Appendix
    Notes
    References
    Index
About the Author: GWENDOLYN L. GERBER is Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Professor Gerber has published extensively in journals such as Sex Roles, Social Psychology Quarterly and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology as well as in edited books. A Fellow in the American Psychological Association and The New York Academy of Sciences, she has received the Wilhelm Wundt and Kurt Lewin Awards from the New York State Psychological Association.
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