Women on SWAT teams: Separate but equal?

Policing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 699-712

  Dodge, Mary ^a   Valcore, Laura ^a   Gomez, Frances ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Aurora Colorado Police Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Gender; Paramilitary policing; Police; Policewomen; United States of America; Weapons; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455128382     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639511111180298     Document Type: Article

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