Paradoxes on Gender Institutionalization Process in Police Department in the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Abstract

Police institutions have gone through processes of change, both in connection with their organization by gender and with the furtherance of regulatory and organizational changes in the division of work and the development of policies involving gender relationships. This article analyzes the gaps between the processes of defining the institutionalization of gender within the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires since its early stages in the late ‘90s to the encapsulation and conceptual realization of a notion of gender policies unmistakably connected with gender-based violence. This analytical focus enables reflection on the paradoxes that impact on those policies and that may help understand their potential scenarios of redefinition from a gender point of view.