Appropriate skill-task matching or gender bias in deployment of male and female police officers?

Policing and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 121-136

  Brown, Jennifer ^a   Maidment, Anita ^b   Bull, Ray ^b  

^a The Optimum Health Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deployment practices; Gender differences; Police management; Sex discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250051800     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.1993.9964662     Document Type: Article

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