Policing as an institution has been under immense pressure to increase the representation of women as police patrol officers. As the representation of women in policing has plateaued, increasing research has focused on barriers to women entering patrol work but has not examined the salience of these barriers with respect to males or reliably determined which barriers are most influential to desire to enter a police patrol career prior to employment. Drawing upon survey responses from more than 640 students enrolled in criminal justice courses across five universities (i.e., University of Southern Mississippi, Illinois State University, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Indiana University-Purdue University Indiana, and Missouri State University), the current inquiry examines the degree to which female and male students differ in their perceptions of barriers to entering a patrol career frequently listed in the literature. The findings indicate that female students view many of these obstacles differently than male students and that these perceptions influence interest in patrol careers.

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性别对警察巡逻职业障碍的感知

作为一个机构进行警务工作面临着巨大的压力，以增加妇女担任警察巡逻人员的人数。随着妇女在警务工作中的代表人数趋于稳定，越来越多的研究集中在妇女参加巡逻工作的障碍上，但并未检查这些障碍对男性的重要性，也没有可靠地确定哪些障碍最有希望进入警察巡逻职业在就业之前。借鉴五所大学（即，南密西西比大学，伊利诺伊州立大学，麻萨诸塞州洛厄尔大学，印第安纳大学-普渡大学，印第安纳州和密苏里州立大学）的640多名参加刑事司法课程的学生的调查答复，当前的调查研究了男女学生在进入文献中经常列出的巡逻职业障碍的认识上的差异程度。研究结果表明，女学生对这些障碍的看法与男学生不同，而且这些看法影响了巡逻事业的兴趣。