Integration of Women into West German and United States Police Service

• NCJ Number: 101059
• Journal: International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1985) Pages: 57-66
• Author(s): J W Stevens; P S Aldrich
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 10 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: An expanded version of this article was presented at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, in April 1985.

Annotation

This article describes the West German attitudes toward full employment of women in police service and the results of an experimental study of the successful integration of women into the uniformed police in Hamburg, West Germany.

Abstract

It compares experiences in the United States and concludes that the West German acceptance and use of women in the uniformed service is five to ten years behind the United States but that the German Police have very deliberately sought to create equal opportunities for women over the past decade. Expectations are that more women will be recruited into the German police service, but that it will be eight to ten years before large numbers of females are employed in the uniformed service or in the higher ranks of the German police forces. (Publisher abstract)