Cara E Rabe-Hemp
Biographic Data
| ID | 4498165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cara E Rabe-Hemp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cara E |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabe-Hemp |
| SIGNATURE | RABE-HEMP C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4114-1470 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Evaluating Predictors and Outcomes of Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization for Women Officers
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictors and consequences of two dimensions of burnout, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization, among 1,531 women officers serving in 83 law enforcement agencies. Studying burnout is vital to building support systems that can help women thrive in law enforcement. The findings show that a substantial number of women officers experience exhaustion and depersonalization and that reducing job demands…
Breaking the Code of Silence
This study used data from 654 new officers attending several training academies in the United States to examine changes in recruits’ attitudes toward the code of silence. The results of multivariate multilevel growth models showed that recruits’ experiences at the academies strengthened their adherence to the code. The results also showed that shifts in officers’ attitudes about the community, seriousness of the misconduct, expected discipline, a…
Mothering Through Mental Illness
As the number of criminally involved women has increased substantially over several decades, the prevalence of mothers impacted by criminal justice involvement has also increased. The current paper seeks to examine a specific subset of these criminally involved mothers—those with significant and long-term mental illness. This study explores how these women describe their experiences mothering through semistructured qualitative interviews with 48 …
Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy
the School of Social Work where she teaches social welfare policy courses.Her research interests include racial disparities in the
Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy
Special Issue
Corruption, Accountability and Discretion
Prelims -- Etiology -- Permeation of corruption in governance -- Policy issues -- Oversight and accountability -- Index
A history of police and masculinities, 1700–2010
Masculinity has largely been studied in its relation to shaping the modern culture of policing, through the monopoly of coercive force against citizens and the social exclusion of women and ‘others
A survey of maternity policies and pregnancy accommodations in American police departments
As police organizations in the United States accommodate pregnancy through the adoption and the implementation of disability and maternity policies, managers must negotiate the institutional pressures and organizational conflicts inherent to allocating resources. This study establishes a record of maternity policies in US agencies and indicates that maternity leave has morphed into family leave, with agencies reporting resources invested in pater…
Citizen complaints and gender diversity in police organisations
Using data from 464 law enforcement agencies drawn from the Law Enforcement Administrative and Management Statistics survey, the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the number of institutional rules and organisational structures an agency has in place to identify, collect and manage information on the use of force incidents explains the previously reported findings that greater levels of female officer representation is associated with …
I Don’t Want to Go Back to That Town
Perceptions of Science and Technology
Due to the increased demands for science and technology (S&T) in criminal justice (CJ) occupational preparation and in response to the growing interest of students in forensics, this study explores the attitudes of CJ majors towards S&T. While these findings raise some fundamental questions about the suitability of increased representation of S&T courses within CJ curriculum, authors argue that CJ curricular goals must continue to evolve to foste…
An Analysis of Advertisements
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 (Citation1979) 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 lo…
Female Forces
As a lens through which gender is negotiated and reproduced, this study examines Female Forces, a reality television show, which follows women police in the highly contested task of crime fighting. Results suggest that the media depictions of women police reify the stereotypes that women police are caretakers and nurturers, rather than crime fighters. This is accomplished through an overemphasis on femininity, domestication, and beauty in the off…
Survival in an “all boys club”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of policewomen to determine the extent to which female officers face resistance and obstacles to police work, to examine the coping mechanisms female officers utilized to overcome impediments encountered, and to establish common themes in female officers' success stories of acceptance and integration. Design/methodology/approach Owing to the difficulty in accessing female officers, t…
Policewomen or PoliceWomen
This work originates from a set of accounts given by female police officers to determine how they construct their identity and their image of themselves in relation to their gender, as they talk about their roles as police, and the broader roles of men and women in society. Despite policewomen's fight for equality in policing, women not only differentiated themselves from their male counterparts, but also described “doing gender” (West & Zimmerma…
Female officers and the ethic of care
Women Police
This study investigated the use of force by and against women police officers using survey data from a large sample of female and male officers in six departments. Results suggested that female officers and same-gender female-female officer pairs used less force, and were less likely to use physical force, in police-citizen encounters when compared to their male counterparts. There was no evidence supporting the proposition that citizens used les…
Policewomen or PoliceWomen
This work originates from a set of accounts given by female police officers to determine how they construct their identity and their image of themselves in relation to their gender, as they talk about their roles as police, and the broader roles of men and women in society. Despite policewomen's fight for equality in policing, women not only differentiated themselves from their male counterparts, but also described “doing gender” (West & Zimmerma…
Female officers and the ethic of care
Citizen complaints and gender diversity in police organisations
Using data from 464 law enforcement agencies drawn from the Law Enforcement Administrative and Management Statistics survey, the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the number of institutional rules and organisational structures an agency has in place to identify, collect and manage information on the use of force incidents explains the previously reported findings that greater levels of female officer representation is associated with …
Female Forces
As a lens through which gender is negotiated and reproduced, this study examines Female Forces, a reality television show, which follows women police in the highly contested task of crime fighting. Results suggest that the media depictions of women police reify the stereotypes that women police are caretakers and nurturers, rather than crime fighters. This is accomplished through an overemphasis on femininity, domestication, and beauty in the off…
I Don’t Want to Go Back to That Town
Women Police
This study investigated the use of force by and against women police officers using survey data from a large sample of female and male officers in six departments. Results suggested that female officers and same-gender female-female officer pairs used less force, and were less likely to use physical force, in police-citizen encounters when compared to their male counterparts. There was no evidence supporting the proposition that citizens used les…
Survival in an “all boys club”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of policewomen to determine the extent to which female officers face resistance and obstacles to police work, to examine the coping mechanisms female officers utilized to overcome impediments encountered, and to establish common themes in female officers' success stories of acceptance and integration. Design/methodology/approach Owing to the difficulty in accessing female officers, t…
Policewomen or PoliceWomen
This work originates from a set of accounts given by female police officers to determine how they construct their identity and their image of themselves in relation to their gender, as they talk about their roles as police, and the broader roles of men and women in society. Despite policewomen's fight for equality in policing, women not only differentiated themselves from their male counterparts, but also described “doing gender” (West & Zimmerma…
Female officers and the ethic of care
An Analysis of Advertisements
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 (Citation1979) 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 lo…
Female Forces
As a lens through which gender is negotiated and reproduced, this study examines Female Forces, a reality television show, which follows women police in the highly contested task of crime fighting. Results suggest that the media depictions of women police reify the stereotypes that women police are caretakers and nurturers, rather than crime fighters. This is accomplished through an overemphasis on femininity, domestication, and beauty in the off…
Perceptions of Science and Technology
Due to the increased demands for science and technology (S&T) in criminal justice (CJ) occupational preparation and in response to the growing interest of students in forensics, this study explores the attitudes of CJ majors towards S&T. While these findings raise some fundamental questions about the suitability of increased representation of S&T courses within CJ curriculum, authors argue that CJ curricular goals must continue to evolve to foste…
Citizen complaints and gender diversity in police organisations
Using data from 464 law enforcement agencies drawn from the Law Enforcement Administrative and Management Statistics survey, the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the number of institutional rules and organisational structures an agency has in place to identify, collect and manage information on the use of force incidents explains the previously reported findings that greater levels of female officer representation is associated with …
I Don’t Want to Go Back to That Town
A survey of maternity policies and pregnancy accommodations in American police departments
As police organizations in the United States accommodate pregnancy through the adoption and the implementation of disability and maternity policies, managers must negotiate the institutional pressures and organizational conflicts inherent to allocating resources. This study establishes a record of maternity policies in US agencies and indicates that maternity leave has morphed into family leave, with agencies reporting resources invested in pater…
A history of police and masculinities, 1700–2010
Masculinity has largely been studied in its relation to shaping the modern culture of policing, through the monopoly of coercive force against citizens and the social exclusion of women and ‘others
Corruption, Accountability and Discretion
Prelims -- Etiology -- Permeation of corruption in governance -- Policy issues -- Oversight and accountability -- Index
Special Issue
Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy
the School of Social Work where she teaches social welfare policy courses.Her research interests include racial disparities in the
Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy
Breaking the Code of Silence
This study used data from 654 new officers attending several training academies in the United States to examine changes in recruits’ attitudes toward the code of silence. The results of multivariate multilevel growth models showed that recruits’ experiences at the academies strengthened their adherence to the code. The results also showed that shifts in officers’ attitudes about the community, seriousness of the misconduct, expected discipline, a…
Mothering Through Mental Illness
As the number of criminally involved women has increased substantially over several decades, the prevalence of mothers impacted by criminal justice involvement has also increased. The current paper seeks to examine a specific subset of these criminally involved mothers—those with significant and long-term mental illness. This study explores how these women describe their experiences mothering through semistructured qualitative interviews with 48 …
Evaluating Predictors and Outcomes of Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization for Women Officers
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictors and consequences of two dimensions of burnout, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization, among 1,531 women officers serving in 83 law enforcement agencies. Studying burnout is vital to building support systems that can help women thrive in law enforcement. The findings show that a substantial number of women officers experience exhaustion and depersonalization and that reducing job demands…
Political science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (10 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Business (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)