Review
“Schulz offers a solid social history of the roles women filled in policing American communities from the 1820s through the 1980s. Not intended to be a theoretical or analytical treatment of either gender or law enforcement, it offers interesting narrative and presents with appropriate praise many actual women who faced high risks and high challenge as they sought first to improve policing and then to gain equal footing on patrol.”–Choice
“This much-needed book will doubtless remain the authoritative work on the subject for some time and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the development of women police or, indeed, the history of social control in the United States.”–Police History Society Journal
“Provides a distinctly balanced, eminently readable chronicle of the men and women who laid the foundation for women police officers today....[This book] should be required reading for every student of police history, every new academy student, and each and every correction and police administrator in the country....We can be grateful that Dorothy Moses Schulz has created what is sure to become the standard text on women and policing, and look forward to what this important new work engenders.”–Law Enforcement News
“Dorothy Schulz has produced a work which is not only academically sound, but is also highly readable. She begins with the, surprisingly early, enrollment of police matrons and social workers dealing solely with women and children and concludes with the acceptance of women as crimefighters on the same standing as their male colleagues. Throughout, the author properly and tellingly interweaves pertinent points from the story of the fluctuating fortunes of feminism. I have no doubt that this much needed and important book will remain the authoritative work on the subject for many years to come.”–Joan Lock, police historian author of The British Policewoman: Her Story
“Simply put, this is the best book on the early history of women in policing available today. The author knows her subject, and this historical account helps to set the record straight on the many contributions of women in the law enforcement field. It will be of interest to men as well as women, and to the general public as well as the criminal justice profession.”– Richard H. Ward, Professor of Criminal Justice and Associate Chancellor, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Now, finally, a first-rate history on the 20th century emergence of women police has been produced. This is 'must' reading for any student of social control.”– Barbara Raffel Price, Ph.D. Dean of Graduate Studies John Jay College of Criminal Justice
“This much-needed book will doubtless remain the authoritative work on the subject for some time and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the development of women police or, indeed, the history of social control in the United States.”–
“Provides a distinctly balanced, eminently readable chronicle of the men and women who laid the foundation for women police officers today....[This book] should be required reading for every student of police history, every new academy student, and each and every correction and police administrator in the country....We can be grateful that Dorothy Moses Schulz has created what is sure to become the standard text on women and policing, and look forward to what this important new work engenders.”–
“Dorothy Schulz has produced a work which is not only academically sound, but is also highly readable. She begins with the, surprisingly early, enrollment of police matrons and social workers dealing solely with women and children and concludes with the acceptance of women as crimefighters on the same standing as their male colleagues. Throughout, the author properly and tellingly interweaves pertinent points from the story of the fluctuating fortunes of feminism. I have no doubt that this much needed and important book will remain the authoritative work on the subject for many years to come.”–
“Simply put, this is the best book on the early history of women in policing available today. The author knows her subject, and this historical account helps to set the record straight on the many contributions of women in the law enforcement field. It will be of interest to men as well as women, and to the general public as well as the criminal justice profession.”–
“Now, finally, a first-rate history on the 20th century emergence of women police has been produced. This is 'must' reading for any student of social control.”–
Book Description
A comprehensive social history of the role of women in United States municipal policing.
