| Description |
356 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Protection or aggression? Police response to women in danger -- 1. Women's aid : policing male violence in the home -- 2. Southall black sisters : Two struggles : challenging male violence and the police -- 3. Working with Asian women and police -- 4. The Gurdip Kaur campaign : fighting for justice -- 5. Crimes against women : The Manchester survey -- 6. Women, racist attacks and the response from Anti-racists groups -- 7. Police and the professionalization of rape -- 8. Helen's story : child sexual abuse and the law -- Pt. 2. Up against it : Women on the receiving end of police powers -- 9. The boys in blue -- 10. Broadwater Farm defence campaign : into our homes -- 1. Nationalist women and the RUC -- 12. Lesbians, policing and the changing law -- 13. Greenham women : the control of protest -- 14. Women in the Welsh Mining communities -- 15. The inapproriate women -- 16. Protecting the honour of innocent men -- 17. Working relations -- 18. MIND : Women and Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 -- 19. Policing Irish women in Britain -- 20. Black women targeted -- 21. Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) : women and the immigration law -- 22. Jane B.'s story : protesting deportation -- Pt. 3. Stepping up control : police, politics and the law -- 23. Public order -- 24. The police and Criminal Evidence Act -- 25. Under surveillance -- 26. Police accountability -- 27. The Criminal justice system -- 28. Sheffield policewatch : taking action -- 29. Complaints and legal action |
| Analysis |
Great Britain Women Attitudes of police |
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Great Britain. Women. Attitudes of police |
| Notes |
Great Britain. Women. Attitudes of police (BNB/PRECIS) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Police -- Great Britain -- Attitudes.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain.
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Women -- Crimes against.
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| Author |
Dunhill, Christina, 1947-
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| LC no. |
86068967 |
| ISBN |
0860689670 (paperback) |
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