Women's Police Stations examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of gendered citizenship, using women's

It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside,

Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domesti

Constituting fewer than 15% of the nation's police officers, women have found it especially difficult to rise through the ranks and achieve higher posts. Here,