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Re-theorizing the progress of women in policing: an alternative perspective from the global south

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posted on 2023-05-21, 07:37 authored by Carrington, K, Jess RodgersJess Rodgers, Sozzo, M, Puyol, MV
Women's entry into policing, a traditionally masculine occupation, has been theorized almost entirely through a liberal feminist theoretical lens where equality with men is the end target. From this theoretical viewpoint, women’s police stations in the Global South established specifically to respond to gender violence have been conceptualized as relics from the past. We argue that this approach is based on a global epistemology that privileges the Global North as the normative benchmark from which to define progress. Framed by southern criminology, we offer an alternative way of theorizing the progress of women in policing using women’s police stations that emerged in Latin America in the 1980s, specifically those in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Publication title

Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal

Pagination

1-22

ISSN

1362-4806

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd

Place of publication

6 Bonhill Street, London, England, Ec2A 4Pu

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© 2022. The Authors.

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  • Restricted

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Law enforcement

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