Remarks by the guest editor (Editorial)

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Prenzler, T
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2020
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A long time ago in early-1991 I was very excited to obtain my first academic job teaching social issues and professional ethics to police recruits in a new combined academy-university training program that was part of a major anti-corruption reform package in the state of Queensland Australia. I have to admit that my expectations of my students were of young six-foot males of uniform appearance. To my surprise, one-third of the classes was female – and there were also many students of all ages and sizes. It turns out that the Fitzgerald Inquiry Report that led to the new program had closely associated a male dominated and monochrome police personnel profile with an organisational culture that facilitated corruption. The Report also identified entrenched discrimination against women – including the use of very small female quotas in recruitment – as part of the organisational culture of corruption. I was witness to a small but very important revolution involving the large-scale entry of women into a previous bastion of male control and privilege.

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Police Practice and Research

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21

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5

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Criminology

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Prenzler, T, Remarks by the guest editor, Police Practice and Research (Editorial), 2020, 21 (5), pp. 439-441

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