...In a male dominated career, becoming a law enforcement officer may seem unreachable for many prospective female employees. Movies show women hiding behind big, strong men in the wake of danger. When you look in costume stores you see male firefighters, police officers, and army men. You look to the other side of the store for women and you see fairies, princesses, and lady bugs. Women are not given the credit or many of the opportunities they deserve, such as becoming a law enforcement officer. The lack of women police officers and game wardens is due to many factors, such as lack of respect, the salary gap, and sexist beliefs also known as the "gender gap." According to Montana Fish and Game, women make up less than twelve percent of law enforcement careers nationwide. Of that twelve percent, game wardens contain the lowest percent of female employees, less than seven percent career-wide. Game wardens are most widely known for giving citations for hunting and fishing violations. The stereotype that hunting and fishing is a "man's hobby" drives women away from the hobby and from the careers that come along with that hobby. According to the National Association of Women Wildlife Officers, many female game warden cadets who then turned away from the career gain many stereotypes. The most...
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...Americans during slavery in the early days of America (Walker, Spohn, & DeLone, 2012). It seems eliminating all discrimination in law enforcement is close to impossible. Today, institutionalized, contextual, and individual acts of discrimination keep the attainment of pure justice just out of society’s reach. Types of Discrimination Institutionalized discrimination is not always intended, but occurs when a policy or procedure inadvertently leaves or singles out a specific group of people. In modern law enforcement practices, this form of discrimination is reflected through the war on drugs. Through research and years of enforcing drug laws, it has come to be expected that the common drug player will be an African American male. Hispanics are also commonly singled out through the war on drugs. While this discrimination is unintentional, African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be arrested for drug related offenses than their white non-Hispanic counterparts. Because this stereotype has proven useful in the past, officers are more likely to search for drugs or signs of drug use when encountering a person that fits into the stereotype. When striving for pure justice, institutionalized discrimination hinders process. It becomes difficult to attain a system that treats all individuals as equals when policies and procedures lead to stereotypes that single a group...
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...Jordon Roman COMP110 4/22/15 Women in The Police Force In today's world men and women are looked at as equals, but for some reason when it comes to certain jobs they are looked at differently. There are still jobs that are expected of men to do and not women. People still say things like “A women can’t do a mans job”, which is very unfair to say and in some cases a women may be able to perform the job better than a man. In some scenarios that police face everyday a womans mind may think differently then a mans. Woman use different parts of their brain and estrogen and testosterone make the brain work differently. Estrogen influences performance on tests of fine motor skills and spatial ability. Women can be in the police force but they...
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...Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Jacob Hollen CJS/210 5/23/2014 Jeffrey Scott Abstract Throughout history women and minorities have struggled to be seen as equals in the law enforcement. In this essay we will discover some of these struggles and changes that have been made in lew of these struggles. Roles of women and minorities Throughout history women and minorities have struggled to be seen as equals. From discrimination in ranks, to stereotypes and being overlooked for promotions, women and minorities have seen and experienced the worst imaginable. They have went from not being allowed on the force, to only being able to work office positions, to showing a strong presence on patrols and beats all around. Effects of the change in the roles of women and minorities I believe that these changes have had a huge impact on the view of the force, not to mention a tremendous leap for equal rights. Having more women and minorities being present on the streets has made women and minorities more app to communicate with the law and giving most of the community a sense of equality. This being said there seems to still be a profiling issue among the forces as seen from the public’s eye. Recruitment issues The grounds for recruitment have leveled out between men and women. What was once seen as a man’s profession has made a complete 180 and became equal amongst most departments. The only differences that still remain among some departments are to do with...
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...Abstract The concept of ethnocentrism is the practice of judging other cultures according to our own culture (Maciones, 2012); doing so inadvertently we use this as a racist and stereotype judgment. The movie “The Chaser” was filmed in South Korea; I will compare the movie with my culture as an Americanized-Hispanic. Introduction Ethnocentrism can be defined as our point of view of another culture; basing our opinion by comparing it to our own culture. Depending on how one uses this categorization we can easily come to a conclusion which becomes more of a stereotype or racist judgment. The effects of ethnocentrism can be negative and affect others in their life in great multitudes. We can use the example from 9/11. Since then many Muslims have been judged and put into a category simply because of their religion; not everybody who is Muslim is also tied into al-Qaeda. Just because woman/man wear head gear also make them an extremist who is out to bomb something. But because of this tragedy, we have done just that, accused and damned their religion and beliefs; because they are not like us and well because of 9/11. “The Chaser” The movie I chose was “The Chaser”; a movie filmed in South Korea about an ex-detective turned pimp who finds himself in financial trouble because two of his girls disappeared. After sending his last girl, he finds out that the customer is also the last customer of the other two girls who just went missing;...
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...Living in America we deal with a lot of diversity, especially those in the criminal justice field where situations caused by religion and ethnicity can lead to a problem. Stereotypes are ideas held by some individuals about members of particular groups, based solely on membership in that group. Stereotyping is one of the biggest problems that we deal with, particularly in law enforcement. Stereotype threat can result in a self-fulfilling insight whereby a person comes to resemble his or her reputation, living up or down to social expectations. Over the years there have been many allegations of police officers accused of going after individuals and accusing them of a crime based on the sole fact of what their religious beliefs might be. This has been going on for a long time; however in recent years, it has gotten worse. The main job of police officers is to uphold the law, not to break it. Although stereotyping is not against the law, police officers have taken an oath to protect all human beings, regardless of their race or religion and stereotyping based on religion should not take place. Just because an individual is of a certain race does not give us the right to stereotype them as a bad human being. Thus stereotyping one’s religious beliefs is wrong, and it goes against what America is all about, that everyone is equal. The book American Dervish is a perfect example of diversity and religion in the United States. The book is good but some of the characters the...
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...Associate Program Material Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |African Americans are better at |African American men are well |Caucasians have no rhythm and | | |sports. |endowed |cannot dance. | |Gender |Women are not as strong as men. |Women are not politicians. |Women are supposed to be | | | | |submissive and do as they are | | | | |told. | |Disability |People with disabilities cannot |Having a mental disability means |People with disabilities are | ...
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...being harmful, or in this case, sexist, Harry Allard’s work, Miss Nelson is Missing, truly is sexist, as it is full of stereotypes and gender roles, it features...
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...such broad statistics conceal that racial disparities pervade each stage of the U.S. judicial system, from arrest to trial and sentencing. The first stage of the judicial system is the arrest made by an officer. Police are given an incredible amount of discretion to use that leads to bias and racial profiling. According to Paul Bou-Habib in his article “Racial Profiling and Background Injustice”, he states, “The main reason in favor of using racial profiling in the context of criminal investigation is that I can increase the chance of catching criminals” (para. 2). A key factor in the imbalance of the arrests on minorities in comparison to whites is that they commit more crimes at higher rates. In the article, “The Correlates of Law Enforcement Officers’ Automatic and Controlled-Race Based Responses to Criminal Suspects” by B. Michelle Peruche & E. Ashby Plant (2006) suggests that: Such responses may be influenced by stereotypic expectations. For example, it is possible that Black men are more likely to be violent and hostile may create expectations that Black people, particularly Black men, are more likely to be violent criminals than White people. (para. 1) Violent crimes consist of murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault. According to the...
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...cannot define theft the same as you could arson. You could not define assault the same as you could jay walking. There are many crimes that exist in society. These crimes range from almost insignificant to horrible to tragic. The same can be said for a person who breaks the law. It would be hard to call someone arrested for jay walking a criminal in the same context as someone arrested for murder. In life, there are many types of people. There are people who have never broken the law and have never had any sort of dealings with law enforcement. There are people that have broken the law and have had unfortunate dealings with law enforcement, yet those people are not criminals and just made a mistake. Then, you have the people that are true criminals. The true criminals of society are the people that hone their “talents and skills.” The true criminals of society are the ones that scheme elaborate plans to steal millions of dollars, the people that hide in the dark waiting for an innocent person to walk by so the criminal can rob them at gunpoint, the people that enjoy raping women or molesting children, and the people that kill other people out of jealousy, greed, or just plain enjoyment. Criminal stereotypes do exist in society. I believe that most people would equate a common thief as some poor, raggedy looking man or woman, perhaps strung out on drugs, and even having a black skin color. Society also has a very common opinion on child molesters. Many people see child molesters...
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...and on the Mississippi river in 1890. Cocaine was also available in this way on public works projects and plantations in Kentucky and Mississippi. It was also available at textile mills in Connecticut and Maine from 1894 to 1897 (Miller, 2013, p. 185). Cocaine was also beginning to be used recreationally. This was particularly so in prostitution. Prostitutes and Pimps would use cocaine as well as their clients, some of whom would be laborers. Cocaine would be available in dance halls and saloons, where it would be partaken by customers, as well as staff such as bartenders. It was made available but local drugstores where snuffs could be purchased without a prescription. It was the non-medicinal use of cocaine by the poor, non-whites, and women that drove the white population into hysteria over cocaine (Miller, 2013, p....
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...THE SOCIAL ROLES OF MEN AND WOMEN In all societies the obvious biological difference between men and women is used as a justification for forcing them into different social roles which limit and shape their attitudes and behavior. That is to say, no society is content with the natural difference of sex, but each insists on adding to it a cultural difference of gender. The simple physical facts therefore always become associated with complex psychological qualities. It is not enough for a man to be male; he also has to appear masculine. A woman, in addition to being female, must also be feminine. However, once the contrast between men and women has been increased and accentuated in this fashion, it is usually taken as a further manifestation of biological differences which confirm the need for different social roles. Or, to put it another way, sex differences are used to create gender differences which are then explained as sex differences which, in turn, require gender differences, and so on. This may be no more than circular reasoning, but it is socially very effective. For example, in our own patriarchal society males enjoy a socially dominant position. Thus, from an early age, boys are helped to acquire a masculinity that allows them to assume and maintain that position. By the same token, girls are taught to cultivate a submissive femininity. The resulting difference in the male and female character is then described as inborn and used to defend the existing power...
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...Do women stereotypes have a good impact on Women Empowerment? Blablalel There is no coincidence if the recent bestseller pointing the worldwide yet hardly visible issue of women around the world, borrows the Chinese express that women hold up half the sky. In such a context where the global position of women makes them 21st-century slaves, the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, contributes in emphasizing that the freedom and independence of the world’ s women is the contemporary most crucial moral challenge. It is true that women around the world tend to hold positions of lower status and authority and are less likely to be employed in the paid work force (Eagly, 735). Women have historically been constrained by deep-rooted stereotypes that fuel a traditional perception of their place in society. Indeed, gender expectations regarding women’s roles participate in maintaining a majority of them in a subordinate position within the society and within the family - as housekeepers. Generally characterized as intellectually, but more particularly physically weaker than men, women’s agency is diminished by gender prejudices and women have to continuously, and in a larger extent than for their male counterparts, impose themselves to belong to society as full citizens. However, all these conventional images on women’s status are not vain and shore up women’s willpower to fight and be part of politics, culture and history as equal to men....
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...Stereotypes are generalizations, or assumptions, that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image, sometimes incorrect about what people in that group are like. Stereotypes are formed because people really don't know other people. Stereotypes are learned at an early age from our parents and peers. It was assumed that girls would be housewives and stay-at-home moms while boys would become the main bread winner. If they did work, women mainly worked in female-dominate roles, such as secretaries and nurses. Men were mainly employed in fields such as law enforcement, military or engineering. There are many stereotypes in the workplace; gender, race, sexual preference, age, and religion. Some of the stereotypes that represent my own views are gender and age stereotypes. Gender stereotypes are generalizations of the role of each gender. Women and men suffer when they restrict their occupational choices to those that seem suitable for members of their sex (George Powell, pg. 78). Men are more likely to gravitate toward jobs such as engineering, carpentry, and computer science; where women tend to seek jobs such as nursing, teaching, and helping people. Stereotypes can be harmful in the workplace because people put labels on others based on general assumptions. I believe gender stereotypes still exist as to what is considered “women’s work.” In the workplace women face many more challenges than men as a result of stereotyping, such...
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...White Professor S. Simmonds English 101: Composition 29, November 2014 Ladies of the Law Over the ages many women have paved the way for others, like them, to be accepted by a profession and the society, as equals. This has proved a long and difficult task in a culture that predominantly believed men were the only capable beings of bringing home the bacon. Many women have fought tooth and nail for the rights of their sex to vote and hold positions never given to a woman before. Of these women there were few who conquered the task of entering a man’s’ world and being recognized for their acts. Law Enforcement is one of those professions. The first women of law enforcement opened the door for others to enter, and proved that sex alone cannot dictate inferiority. Although there were two “Matrons” hired by New York City police department in 1845. Mrs. Mary Owens was a true pioneer in the world of policing for women. As the widow of a law man killed on duty, she was the first female to be granted arrest powers in 1893, by the Chicago Police Department. Mrs. Owens was granted employment as a sort of death benefit from her husband’s passing. Mrs. Owens duties were assisting the agency with cases that involved women and children. (National Center for Women in Policing [NCWP], 2005) Although her role resembled what is now considered social work, Mrs. Owens opened the door for aspiring women all over the nation during her thirty years of service. (NCWP, 2005) In 1905 Lola Baldwin...
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