Sally Doran’s research while affiliated with UNSW Sydney and other places

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Publications (4)

Figure 1 Female responses to gender question (Rounds 2 to 5) 
Table 1 Responses to gender question by sex of interviewee (Round 5)
Table 3 Changes in eight Longitudinal Interviews with Female Officers over Time Response at Round 5 interview
Doing and undoing gender in policing
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November 2010

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Theoretical Criminology

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Sally Doran

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This article assesses the utility of ‘doing gender’ as a framework for examining gender issues in policing. Drawing on a longitudinal study in an Australian police force, the article seeks to explain the persistence of barriers to the integration of female officers after decades of equal employment laws and policies. The interviews make transparent the agency of male and female actors in sustaining or resisting the status quo. While there are real benefits in opening up the ‘doing gender’ framework to draw attention to contestations and challenges to gender hierarchy as suggested by the notion of ‘undoing gender’, the article demonstrates the complexity of gender practices in policing and rejects the posing of equality and difference as mutually exclusive alternatives.

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Staying in the Job: Job Satisfaction among MidCareer Police Officers

January 2009

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Policing

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Sally Doran

This paper examines the level of job satisfaction among a group of Australian police officers 9–10 years after commencing training. Drawing on a longitudinal study of police recruits and a follow-up study, the paper tracks the careers of the cohort and compares their level of job satisfaction and turnover intentions over time. A paradoxical finding is that mid-career police officers who remained in the job were highly satisfied with their choice of policing as a career but quite dissatisfied with the police organization and their systems of performance evaluation and promotion. Nearly half of the officers were seriously considering leaving the job. These results suggest that in order to retain experienced officers, police organizations need to support officers in their work and career development and improve their working conditions, especially during periods of organizational change.

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... In policing, such resistance is widespread because many officers perceive formal academic education as disconnected from the 'real' skills needed on the job. This cultural tension reflects the challenge of integrating scientific knowledge and critical thinking into a field that has historically valued experience-based learning and operational effectiveness over theoretical insights (Chan et al. 2003). ...

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Reforming police education in Iceland: a comparative analysis of students’ competence valuations before and after the transition to university education
Fair Cop: Learning the Art of Policing
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  • January 2003

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Christopher Devery

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Sally Doran

... In the same vein, Franklin (2007) notes that police organizations across the globe are socially, politically and historically gendered spaces that have been built upon and affirming ideas about masculinism and patriarchy. Acker (1990:146) cited in Chan et al. (2010) similarly explains that policing is a work that is typically carried out in a gendered environment where 'advantage and disadvantage, exploitation and control, action and emotion, meaning and identity are patterned through and in terms of a difference between male and female, masculine and feminine'. ...

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Gender Gap in the Nigeria Police Force: The Underlying Factors and Strategies for Upscaling Female Enrolment
Doing and undoing gender in policing

Theoretical Criminology

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Sally Doran

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... Við skoðun á fyrri rannsóknum má gróflega greina fjóra megin þaetti sem hafa áhrif á brotthvarf lögreglumanna úr starfi, þ.e. stjórnunarhaettir (Chan og Doran, 2009;Charman og Bennett, 2022;Haarr, 2005;James og Hendry, 1991;McIntyre, 1990;Yun o.fl., 2015), starfsánaegja (Allisey o.fl., 2014;Brough og Frame, 2004;Chan og Doran, 2009;Haarr, 2005;Hur, 2013;James og Hendry, 1991;McIntyre, 1990) og álag og streita (Adebayo og Ogunsina, 2011;Gomes o.fl., 2022;Haarr, 2005;Martinussen o.fl., 2007;McIntyre, 1990;Reiser, 1974;Shim o.fl., 2015;Yun o.fl., 2015). ...

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Brotthvarf menntaðra lögreglumanna úr starfi - ,,þörf er á róttækum breytingum á starfsumhverfi og stjórnun lögreglunnar"
Staying in the Job: Job Satisfaction among MidCareer Police Officers
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  • January 2009

Policing

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Sally Doran

... This 'experience' (Cefaï and Terzi 2012) fosters an empirically based understanding of the narrative surrounding Sri Lankans. As Chan (2003) has shown, police culture is multilayered, being informed not only by formal protocols and training but also by the 'feel for the game' conveyed informally through the transmission of stories and experiences, especially by more experienced officers to new police officers. Thus, integrating the personal feelings and experiences Intersectional Making of the 'Sri Lankan Case' • 13 of individuals facing a challenging situation with an examination of the processes whereby an event or a narrative becomes institutionalized is relevant for the analysis (Lumsden and Black 2018). ...

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Intersectional Making of the ‘Sri Lankan Case’
Fair cop : learning the art of policing / Janet B. L. Chan
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Chris Devery

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Sally Doran