The Public Imagery of Police Work from the Perspective of Gender

Police - public relations and the image of police is the field of study that deals with more and more recently in the disciplines of criminology and sociology. These subjects are also partially the matter of this study. The purpose of this study is to find out how the image of police is influenced by the gender; that is what kind of a role the gender plays in the police - society relations. In brief, this study seeks answers for the questions such as whether the level of relationship that the people establishes with the female police officers and male officers is the same; whether the perception of the public changes towards female and male police officers; and the role of the gender in the formation of such relation, in other words, whether men and women have a different perception of the police officers in general terms and whether they perceive the female and male police officers in different way in specific terms by means of surveys and questionnaires.

was born in Ankara in 1975. He graduated from Department of Sociology at Hacettepe University in Ankara in 1997. This book is his dissertation that submitted to Department of Sociology at METU in 2010. He now works as Assist. Prof. at the University of Tunceli. His fields of interest are criminology, statistics and sociology of law.