Conferences

Third Australasian women and policing conference : women and policing globally

National Convention Centre, Canberra
20-23 October 2002

This conference was organised by the Australasian Council for Women and Policing in association with the International Association of Women Police.

Abstract

This third Australasian women and policing conference was an interactive forum aiming to: examine and share models of policing from around the world with the potential to improve policing for women and children; inform Australian policing of issues for women and policing globally; provide a platform for meetings of women police and law enforcement officers from around the globe; provide an opportunity for academic debate and recommendations for further research into women and policing on a global scale; and develop and expand the global networks of women and policing. The conference examined a broad range of issues, including: women in regions of conflict and women as peacekeepers; international comparisons of women in policing and law enforcement around the globe; investigating and prosecuting war crimes, including rape and genocide; trafficking in women; international networks for women in policing and law enforcement; improving the status of women within policing and law enforcement; all forms of violence against women including domestic violence, sexual assault and female genital mutilation; increasing diversity within policing and law enforcement environments; the roles of police and law enforcement officers in protecting women's human rights; and best practice in policing for women. Some papers from the conference are represented only by abstracts.

Conference papers

Keynote addresses

• Both sides of the thin blue line
  Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner
• Violence against women and women's human rights: an international perspective
  Anne Gallagher, United Nations Official, Former Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Gender and excessive force: the cost of male vs female officers in America (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Margie Moore, National Centre for Women and Policing, USA
• Why do we need women in policing? The history of women in policing (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Professor Frances Heidensohn, University of London

Policing domestic violence

• Domestic violence regulated for the first time by the Romanian criminal code - implications, prevention and intervention methods
  Lt Simona Pintea, Police Department of Cluj County, Romania
• Police response to domestic violence in Taiwan and England
  Mei-Kuei Yu, University of Kent at Canterbury
• Dynamics of domestic violence (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Det Sgt June Dobson, Ontario Provincial Police, Canada

Women in policing

• Women today, yesterday and tomorrow (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  A/Sgt Elizabeth Burns, Waverley Police Department, New South Wales
• Gender equality in the Fiji Police (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Supt Merewalesi Verebalavu, Fiji Police Force
• 30 years of women in the Pennsylvania State Police
  Major Kathryn E. Hosmer Doutt, Pennsylvania State Police, USA

Women and management

• The impact of management education on women in policing (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Delayne Trofymowych, Charles Sturt University, and A/Prof Irene Froyland, Edith Cowan University
• Improving the position of women in policing
  Stephanie Yearnshire, Teesside University, UK

Sexual violence

• Legalised brothel prostitution and the traffic in women (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Sheila Jeffreys, University of Melbourne
• Listen to our voices (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Ruth Christie, Canberra Rape Crisis Centre Inc.
• Crisis responses to drug facilitated sexual assault (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Sarah Crookes and Maria Chalkes, Centre Against Sexual Assault, Victoria

Policing internationally

• The Women in Law Enforcement Strategy - a Commonwealth network (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  FA Audrey Fagan, Australian Federal Police
• The Nordic-Baltic Network of Police Women
  Deputy Assistant Commissioner Maria Appelblom, Stockholm County Police, Sweden
• Influencing the decision makers: the Commissioners' Australasian Women in Policing Advisory Committee (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  FA Anne Dellaca, Australian Federal Police, and Commissioners's Australasian Women in Policing Advisory Committee

Child protection

• 'Yell to tell'
  Vicki Key, Victoria Police
• What is the status of child pornography investigations in your community? (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Det Lauri Schwartz, City of Madison Police Department, USA and Det Insp Kim McKay, NSW Police Service
• Supervised parent/child contact
  Judy Harrison, Australian Children's Contact Service Association

Dealing with sexual harassment workshop

• Dealing with sexual harassment (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Tamia Dow, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, USA

Violence Against Women

• Gendered construction of criminality and police violence towards female sex offenders (in the Middle-East)
  Amir Hossein Kordvani, University of Tehran, Iran
• Women police units in India: back door to equality (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Dr Mangai Natarajan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA
• Rosario's policing pilot experience of dealing with crimes against women and children
  Agent Maria Cardozo, National University of Rosario, Rosario´s Policing, Santa Fe Provincial Police, Argentina

Women and Peacekeeping

• Women, international peace and security
  Margaret Bearlin, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Women in regions of conflict and post conflict (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Dr Elsina Wainwright, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• Women in peacekeeping
  FA Delia Quigley, Australian Federal Police
• Peacekeeping operations missions: Croatia (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe-O.S.C.E) East Timor (United Nations) Kosovo (O.S.C.E) (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Dolores Perez, Cuerpo Nacional de Policia, Spain

Managing otherness: twenty-first century issues in policing

• Distance from norm - coping and adapting in a world of white heterosexual males (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Dr Marisa Silvestri, South Bank University, UK for Professor Jennifer Brown, University of Surrey, UK
• Women and policing in the twentieth and twenty-first century: gender, identity and choices (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Professor Frances Heidensohn, University of London
• A minority within a minority - women as police leaders (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Dr Marisa Silvestri, South Bank University, UK
• "You can't have it both ways": being an officer and a lady (woman) in a male dominated occupation
  Dr Marisa Silvestri, South Bank University, UK for Jennifer Brown, University of Surrey, UK

International status of women in policing

Chair: Vanessa McLemore, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

• Flirting with the gender agenda
  Margaret Quirk, Government Whip, WA
• Women policing and the transition to independence
  Ulvie Oksa, Estonian Police Board

Women, violence and policing globally

• Domestic violence homicide prevention (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Ann O'Dell, STOPDV Incorporated, USA
• Acting gender in the Victoria Police: a partnership pas de deux in a male-dominated organisational culture (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Pete French, RMIT, Victoria
• Harmful cultural practices against women and children (girl child) in Uganda/Africa
  Hellen Alyek, Uganda Police Force
• Mainstreaming gender into the police and criminal justice system: UNIFEM interventions (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Libby Lloyd AM for Dr. Jean D'Cunha, National Committee UNIFEM

Organisational barriers

• Gender discrimination and regulatory behaviour: an Australian case study in policing (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Dr Tim Prenzler, Griffith University
• Scaling the 6 foot wall: physical agility in American Police Department (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Margie Moore, National Centre for Women and Policing, USA
• Contemporary issues facing women in policing
  Nadia Boni, Australasian Centre for Policing Research
• Victoria Police physical screening of police applicants (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Insp Michael Glinsky, Victoria Police

Recruiting women

• What do women think about a policing career? (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Michael Chesworth, NSW Police
• Impact of distance education on the recruitment of women into the New South Wales Police Service
  Christine Jennett and Rosemary Woolston, Charles Sturt University
• Equity confounded? New managerialism, organisational restructuring and women in Australian police services
  Jenny Fleming and George Lafferty, Griffith University
• Using the professional organization for effective law enforcement networking, mentoring and recruitment (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Cynthia Shain, Kentucky Regional Community Policing Institute

Policing women's human rights

• Balancing the scales of justice: rights and remedies for crime victims (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Laura Goodman-Brown, State Office of Crime Victims Ombudsman, USA
• Attitudes and opinions of police, service providers and community leaders to domestic violence in culturally diverse communities in Sydney, Australia
  Josie Wakim, Quest Work Pty Ltd, New South Wales
• An Indigenous woman in policing
  Lorraine Jones and Denise Goddard, Northern Territory Police
• Gender and violence
  Chief Insp Miriam Yawa, Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary

Diversity

• Am I different to you or are you different from me? (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Helen Phelan, Western Australian Police Service
• Homophobia and police gay and lesbian liaison (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Snr Const Melinda Edwards, Victoria Police
• New Zealand Police - flexible employment and best practice
  Insp Paula Rose, New Zealand Police

Domestic violence and crime prevention

• Family Violence Intervention Program (FVIP) (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Supt Chris Lines, Australian Federal Police
• Policing family violence - a strategy for sustained change (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Gerry Morris, Australian Federal Police
• FAIR - the Swan Hill integrated response to domestic violence (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Snr Const John Lyons, Victoria Police Service
• Getting connected in Logan River Valley - police and community services co-ordinated response to domestic violence
  Sergeant Maree Foelz, Queensland Police Service

Trafficking in women

• Prostitution as violence against women (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Dr Sheila Jeffreys, University of Melbourne
• Trafficking in women : the European and the Swedish perspective
  Deputy Commissioner Maria Appelblom, Stockholm County Police, Sweden
• Trafficking in women : the European and the Swedish perspective
  Insp Helene Görtzen, Stockholm County Police, Sweden
• Policing trafficking in women for prostitution
  Kathleen Maltzahn, Project Respect Incorporated, Victoria

Best practice models

• Issue resolution - a process based on conciliation and a fair go for all! (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Leann Plytus and Debbie Sonin, Victoria Police
• NDV Project in South Australia: a reduction in domestic violence (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Phil Maynard, South Australia Police
• The role of victim contact officer - South Australia Police
  Snr Const Robyn Crameri, South Australia Police
• An exploration of a different model of service provision to victims of domestic violence in a police setting - the 'Tamworth Domestic Violence Project'
  Jane Wangmann, University of Sydney and Cathy Hastings, Attorney-General's Department, NSW

Organisational barriers

• The 3 R's - recruitment, retention and resignation - essential to ensuring the success of women in policing jurisdictions (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Leann Plytus and Debbie Sonin, Victoria Police
• Surviving the implementation of a policy change to working conditions with the Victoria Police Force
  Det Snr Const Debra Robertson, Victoria Police
• Untitled (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Janelle Gibson, Queensland Police Service

Professional issues

• Professional distance and corruption
  Dr Anna Corbo Crehan, Charles Sturt University
• Power surges: the wise women of the tribe (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Sandra Langlands and Jill Wood, Victoria Police
• Women in covert policing
  Det Sgt Gaynor Whiteman, National Criminal Intelligence Service, UK

Women in government investigations units

• Commonwealth investigators: working the limbo between Australian public and private policing
  Christine Lidgard, Department of Education, Science and Training
• The criminalisation of women: the impact and implications of financial abuse
  Betty Green and Irene Pearce, Bankstown Women's Health Centre, NSW
• Why don't more women seek appointment to the State Crime Squads, Crime Department, Victoria Police Force? And why don't they stay there long term? (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Greg Robertson, Victoria Police

Diversity

• Diversity (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Const Andrea Reynolds, West Midlands Police Service, UK
• Motherhood and policing - a modern mix
  Sgt Jennene McMaster, Victoria Police
• Experience of women in policing who come from diverse backgrounds (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Sandra Brooks and Jo Kamira, Charles Sturt University

Feminist dilemmas for policing

• Empowering women and doing justice: feminist dilemmas for policing (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Melinda Tynan, Australasian Council of Women and Policing
• The changing face of feminism is australian society and the criminalisation and deviantisation of domestic violence (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Ann Sebire, Victoria Police

Writing your legacy (workshop)

• Writing your legacy - writing your story (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Laura Goodman-Brown, State Office of Crime Victims Ombudsman, US

Best police practice for women in the community

• Missing persons: extending traditional policing boundaries to address a social issue
  Carole Kiernan, Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence, and Dr Monika Henderson, M&P Henderson & Associates
• Take away her freedom, and you could lose yours - the Western Australian Police Service Drink Spiking Education Project
  Detective Sergeant Michelle Fyfe and Barry Newell, Western Australian Police Service
• Women policing between cultures (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Tanya Woodcock, Bathurst Island Police Station, Northern Territory

Status of women in policing

• Women development in Pakistan
  Zahida Tariq, International Association of Women Police
• Difference in belief about gender related competency in the Western Australia Police Service (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Janet Deveney-Salmon and Det Sgt Michelle Fyfe, Western Australia Police Service
• An examination of the way senior women in policing have been portrayed in the media, particularly in cartoons (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Sgt Jill Bruce, Victoria Police
• Improving the status of women in policing (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Janet McGrath, Western Australian Police Service

Conflict management (Workshop)

• Conflict management (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Alan Malinchak, Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA

Domestic violence training

• "State of the art", best practice in the USA-DV intervention (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Ann O'Dell, STOPDV Incorporated, USA

Crime, globalisation and policing

• Crime scene management (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  John Yearnshire, National Training Centre, UK
• The lure of gangs - immigration and organised crime (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Wendy Austin, NSW Police Service
• The impact of globalisation in managing public order: a practitioners viewpoint (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Cmdr Lola Scott, New South Wales Police Service

Employment practices in policing

• Gender Equity Action Plan (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Bronwyn Killmier, South Australia Police
• Coping with shiftwork: the impact on women's health
  Sue Woolfenden, Strategic Direction, UK
• Redressing the gendered and sexualised nature of policing in an Australian police service
  Susan Harwood and Dr Joan Eveline, University of Western Australia
• Flexible employment practices (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Const Kendra Hey, Tasmania Police Service

Investigating sexual assault

• Pretext conversations (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Christine O'Hehir, Sgt Angela Hart and Helen Sattler, Victoria Police
• Rape victimology
  Stephanie Yearnshire, Teesside University, UK
• To believe or not to believe?: police responses to women rape complainants
  Dr Jan Jordan, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Non-reporting and hidden recordings of sexual assault in Australia
  Dr Denise Lievore, Australian Institute of Criminology

Integrity and gender

• The gender agenda (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Julie Spence, Thames Valley Police Headquarters, UK
• When good women turn bad
  Insp Marea Rayment and Insp Susan Trusty, New South Wales Police Service
• Women and discrimination - a policing perspective
  Insp Stephen Leane and Jacqueline Durand, Victoria Police

Women and police networks internationally

• The International Association of Women Police (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Terrie Swann, International Association of Women Police, USA
• Police Federation of Australia, Women's Advisory Committee (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Margaret Hogan, The Police Association, VIC
• Where to from 2002? (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Helen McDermott and Melinda Tynan, Australasian Council of Women and Policing

Panel: Terrorism

• Ground Zero (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  Captain Terry Tobin, New York Police Department, USA
• The other victims
  Kathleen Burke, Retired Detective, New York Police Department, USA

Related conferences

Papers are also available for the First, Second and Fourth Australasian women and policing conferences