Controlled burn: The gendering of stress and burnout in modern policing

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 216-238

  Kurtz, Don L ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burnout; Gender and policing; Gendered organization theory; Masculinity; Policing; Social construction of gender; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749139723     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085108321672     Document Type: Article

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