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was influential in defining the role of the state in protecting its citizens and her methods for collecting and analyzing data, particularly on youth, homelessness and crime were not only innovative for the time, but for many years served as the standard for researchers who followed. After World War II, she was ostracized and kept under police surveillance until her death.
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Petkova's first employment after her return was in the Sofia police headquarters working in child protection, but the position was closed. She then took employment as an auditor in the social service office of Sofia
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and the need to train girls in domestic work and other skills that would prevent them from becoming victimized. She advocated for police departments to train female officers as well as social workers for each municipality to assist women. Against the criminalization of prostitution, she instead
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she organized the office of protective care. She published articles in a wide variety of journals focusing on pedagogy, police work and women's issues. Most of her articles focused on at risk children and methods that could be used to protect them. She also published extensively on
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and traditional, she wanted to become a teacher. At the time in
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statistical analysis evaluated twenty-seven different factors of 404 children under the age of 21, including age, ethnic background, habits, health, family history, marital status, occupation, origin, social class, among others. Her findings indicated that
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to study law. Though she was allowed to study, prohibitions at the time would not allow her to be employed in the profession. Among her classmates were
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should be illegal but the business transaction should only be regulated to ensure that women were protected from injury and exploitation.
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