7. Women in Law Enforcement: Frances Glessner Lee & Georgia Hill Robinson

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://blackthen.com/georgia-ann-hill-robinson-first-african-american-policewoman-in-the-united-states/ 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 https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cbibliographic_details%7C4384883#page/1/mode/1/chapter/bibliographic_entity|bibliographic_details|4384883