7. Women in Law Enforcement: Frances Glessner Lee & Georgia Hill Robinson - a podcast by Pink Collar Pod
from 2020-05-21T17:51:02
This week, Rachel and Nathalie are back from a quick mental health break during quarantine. Instead of covering women who have committed crimes, we decided to change things up and talk about two incredible women that have had a positive impact on law enforcement. Rachel starts off describing one of Frances Glessner Lee’s crime scene nutshells (follow this link for an interactive experience http://www.deathindiorama.com/kitchen.html). Lee created mini crime scenes to help train police officers learn how to investigate crime scenes. Nathalie covers the story of Georgia Ann Robinson, the first black woman appointed to be a police officer in the United States. Robinson not only defied gender roles by working on homicide and juvenile cases, she also focused on helping offenders by referring women and girls to social agencies. We discuss how traits that are typically viewed as feminine helped these women bring new perspectives to a male dominated field.
Music is by Joseph McDade: https://www.patreon.com/josephmcdade/posts
Rachel’s Sources
Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/nutshells
The Woman Who Invented Forensics Training with Doll Houses, by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-woman-who-invented-forensics-training-with-doll-houses
Death in Diorama
http://www.deathindiorama.com/kitchen.html
History of the Rocks
https://therocks.org/
Nathalie's Sources
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/georgia-ann-robinson-lapds-first-black-policewoman
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/robinson-georgia-ann-hill-1879-1961/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Ann_Robinson
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