Lynn Zimmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Zimmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmer |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Geneseo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Future
Under Cover: Police Surveillance in America. Gary T. Marx
Sex and Supervision: Guarding Male and Female Inmates
Women Guarding Men
Tokenism and Women in the Workplace: The Limits of Gender-Neutral Theory
The concept of “tokenism” has been used widely to explain many of the difficulties women face as they enter traditionally male occupations. Tokenism explains women's occupational experiences and their behavioral responses to those experiences in terms of their numerical proportion, suggesting that barriers to women s full occupational equality can be lowered by the hiring of more women in organizations that are highly-skewed male. This paper sugg…
Women Guarding Men
How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role
This article describes the innovative job performance strategies used by women who work as guards in men's prisons. It suggests that women guards perform the job differently from men guards not only because women face structural and discriminatory barriers on the job but also because most women bring to the job a set of prior experiences, skills, and abilities different from those of most men. One of the reasons women may fail to receive positive…
Organizational and Racial Conflict in Maximum-Security Prisons
Challenging the Taylor Law: Prison Guards on Strike
In analyzing the 1979 strike by nearly all of the prison guards in New York State, this paper focuses on the social organization of the prison environment and the guards' changing occupational role as critical causes of the strike. Many guards believe that in recent years they have lost status and much of their authority; in addition, racial tension has mounted within the guard force as well as between guards and inmates. The authors argue that c…
Tokenism and Women in the Workplace: The Limits of Gender-Neutral Theory
The concept of “tokenism” has been used widely to explain many of the difficulties women face as they enter traditionally male occupations. Tokenism explains women's occupational experiences and their behavioral responses to those experiences in terms of their numerical proportion, suggesting that barriers to women s full occupational equality can be lowered by the hiring of more women in organizations that are highly-skewed male. This paper sugg…
How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role
This article describes the innovative job performance strategies used by women who work as guards in men's prisons. It suggests that women guards perform the job differently from men guards not only because women face structural and discriminatory barriers on the job but also because most women bring to the job a set of prior experiences, skills, and abilities different from those of most men. One of the reasons women may fail to receive positive…
Challenging the Taylor Law: Prison Guards on Strike
In analyzing the 1979 strike by nearly all of the prison guards in New York State, this paper focuses on the social organization of the prison environment and the guards' changing occupational role as critical causes of the strike. Many guards believe that in recent years they have lost status and much of their authority; in addition, racial tension has mounted within the guard force as well as between guards and inmates. The authors argue that c…
Challenging the Taylor Law: Prison Guards on Strike
In analyzing the 1979 strike by nearly all of the prison guards in New York State, this paper focuses on the social organization of the prison environment and the guards' changing occupational role as critical causes of the strike. Many guards believe that in recent years they have lost status and much of their authority; in addition, racial tension has mounted within the guard force as well as between guards and inmates. The authors argue that c…
Organizational and Racial Conflict in Maximum-Security Prisons
Women Guarding Men
How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role
This article describes the innovative job performance strategies used by women who work as guards in men's prisons. It suggests that women guards perform the job differently from men guards not only because women face structural and discriminatory barriers on the job but also because most women bring to the job a set of prior experiences, skills, and abilities different from those of most men. One of the reasons women may fail to receive positive…
Sex and Supervision: Guarding Male and Female Inmates
Women Guarding Men
Tokenism and Women in the Workplace: The Limits of Gender-Neutral Theory
The concept of “tokenism” has been used widely to explain many of the difficulties women face as they enter traditionally male occupations. Tokenism explains women's occupational experiences and their behavioral responses to those experiences in terms of their numerical proportion, suggesting that barriers to women s full occupational equality can be lowered by the hiring of more women in organizations that are highly-skewed male. This paper sugg…
Under Cover: Police Surveillance in America. Gary T. Marx
Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Future
Sociology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Prison (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works)