Factors Leading to the Family Harms of Tehran PoliceWomen

Police Women are responsible of maintaining security of families. This Paper aims at answering this question: What are the factors related to police work that leads to threats to the families of policewomen.The present paper tries to identify factors which results from police women work and can lead to certain harms to their families. This is a field study on 136 policewomen who work for Tehran police. The required data were obtained by questionnaire. Analysis of the data Showed that factors such as work on Shifts, mental and physical stress, role conflicts, lack of organizational facilities, and men’s poor understanding of police work are strongly related to the family harms of policewomen.