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dc.contributor.authorPrenzler, T
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-08T05:46:49Z
dc.date.available2019-08-08T05:46:49Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.identifier.issn0004-8658
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/000486589803100202
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/121678
dc.description.abstractFrom the consolidation of the Queensland Police in 1864 until 1931 there were no women in the force, despite the appointment of policewomen in all other Australian states during World War One. The election of a woman MP gave leverage to the action taken by women's groups, and two policewomen were eventually appointed in the face of union opposition and a resistant police administration. Social upheaval in Brisbane during World War Two allowed for an increase in numbers and formal organisation into a Police Women Section. Full powers were achieved in 1965, although women remained in an extremely restricted role. In terms of the aspirations of the women police movement, the establishment of women in the Queensland Police was a pyrrhic victory. Their limited numbers and separate establishment confirmed their marginal and inferior status. This study highlights the contradictory effects of the employment of women police, including the problematic nature of the use of women to police their own gender. At the policy level, the study demonstrates the need for strong anti-discrimination legislation to curb the destructive effects of discretionary decision making in employment, particularly in male dominated fields such as policing. It also confirms dominant themes identified in the development of women police in other countries. Dogged resistance forced women to resort to a variety of adaptive strategies, and made for a slow and complex process of infiltration of police ranks.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAustralian Academic Press
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom119
dc.relation.ispartofpageto140
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1602
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1701
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleConcession and Containment: The Establishment of Women in the Queensland Police, 1931-1965
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPrenzler, Timothy J.


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