Emma Cunningham is a senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of East London. She has worked within different departments in higher education for over 20 years and has taught under and post-graduate students across the social sciences as well as local, national, and international police officers. She was also involved in the England-Africa Partnership between staff at the University of Teesside, from the Kigali Institute of Education, the National University of Rwanda, and the Rwandan Police, and was an external examiner there (2007-08). She is interested in Wollstonecraft, feminism, domestic and sexual violence, citizenship, human rights, and women and policing, which inform her research areas.

Introduction: Women in policing - Their sameness and difference

1. Wollstonecraft, the 'nature of woman', and women entering the police

2. Re-emerging arguments about the nature of woman, a re-examination of twenty-three policewomen data and a review of policing in Australia

3. Feminist use of Freedom of Information requests (FOI)

4. Conclusions and summary

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Women in Policing provides insight into women's role in policing, their emergence and development, offering theoretical underpinning to explore the role as well as incorporating empirical studies reassessing lived experiences of female officers and FOI requests to examine police disciplinary offences in three police force areas.