Pakistani policewomen: questioning the role of gender in circumscribing police corruption

The popular belief that women are more honest and morally superior than men, shared by many feminist theorists, development practitioners and policy makers across the globe, subsequently informs another belief, that increasing the number of women in a corrupt organisation will therefore reduce the l...

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Main Author: Ahmad, Sadaf (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2020]
In: Policing and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 8, Pages: 890-904
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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