TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - An analysis of advertisements: a lens for viewing the social exclusion of women in police imagery
JO  - Women and criminal justice
A1  - Rabe-Hemp, Cara
A1  - Beichner, Dawn
SP  - 63
EP  - 81
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
N2  - The present study was designed to analyze gender stereotypes in U.S. print advertisements of police officers in a professional police magazine (n = 680). A decade (1996-2006) of advertisements was examined using E. Goffman's (1979) framework for content/frame analysis. The results suggest that women (n = 99) are numerically underrepresented and socially excluded from the imagery of crime-fighting; rather, they are portrayed as being in lower ranks, stereotypically as caretakers and nurturers. The implications for women police, the citizens they serve, and the administrators who hire them are critical, as advertisements function as a feedback loop whereby notions of what a female officer is are represented, digested, and recreated.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0897-4454
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2011.536076
ID  - ref1
ER  -