Walking the thin blue line: Policewomen and tokenism today

Women and Criminal Justice

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 23-61

  Wertsch, Teresa Lynn ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84979260848     PISSN: 08974454     EISSN: 15410323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J012v09n03_02     Document Type: Article

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