NCJ Number
195953
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 30 Issue: 3 Dated: May/June 2002 Pages: 175-182
Date Published
June 2002
Length
8 pages
Annotation
This study argued that, in fields and times where science is less dominated by men, there should be fewer barriers to the scholarly productivity of women.
Abstract
Preliminary work (1994) on the field of sociology, where nearly 40 percent of the scholars are reportedly women, found men's and women's scholarly productivity to be at the same level. Gender was also unrelated to the odds of obtaining an appointment to a graduate-level sociology department during the period 1976-1992. This study analyzed a soft science (criminal justice), focusing on academic faculty and controlling for type of location. The study claimed to be the first systematic investigation into gender and other correlates of scholarly productivity in criminal justice. The study addressed gaps in the literature through analysis of current data from criminal justice faculty who are all full-time, tenured, or tenure track personnel. A central guiding thesis was that female faculty in criminal justice worked in an atmosphere of high integration into male research networks, measured by high cross-gender coauthorship rates. Tables, references