Women's Police Stations
Subtitle: Gender, Violence, and Justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780312240424
Subjects: Social Science; Textbooks; Sociology; Criminology; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Sociology - General; Brazil; Policewomen; Sao Paulo; Säao Paulo; Violence against; Women; Women's police stations
First sentence: In the late 1970s and mid-1980s, pressure from social movement actors, such as women's and feminist groups, forced the military regime, established by the 1964 military coup, to initiate a process of redemocratization in Brazil.