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Showing 1 to 20 of 364 for “"Police Officers"”.
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Procedural Justice And Police Officers: The Forgotten Perspective
… has been increased attention to questions about police legitimacy and the expectation of citizen compliance. Some scholars argue that procedurally just practices benefit police-citizen interactions (see Mazerolle et al., 2012, 2013). While there are many studies that focus on procedural justice …
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The Construction of Domestic Violence Among Police Officers
… research studies, and changes in the law, police departments in the United States have experienced dramatic changes in their response to domestic violence. The purpose of this study is to examine police officers constructions of domestic violence. I argue that officers' interpretations of …
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Social support, stress, and burnout among Icelandic police officers
Previous studies indicate that police work is stressful and that it can lead to job burnout, particularly among those that have lower levels of social support. The aim of the current research was to identify levels of distress and burnout and to explore the relationship between social support, …
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A Study of Shift Working Police Officers from Buffalo
<p>Police officers suffer from various adverse physical and mental health problems that may be mediated by stress, including effects imposed by shift work. Using data from the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress (BCOPS) cohort, this study examined effects of long term or short term …
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Can Police Officers be Taught to be Fair? Lessons from a Randomised Controlled Field Trial on Training in Legitimacy for UK Counterterrorism Police Officers
… attempts to produce several contributions to police legitimacy. It consists of various moving yet intertwining parts. First, to capitalise on the growing body of evidence on the effects of 'procedural justice training' to police officers we conduct a systematic review to trace, evaluate, and …
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Police officers' perceptions of gender-motivated violence in Canada
Police officers‟ perceptions of gender-motivated violence against women have been overlooked in hate crime research. In an attempt to fill a gap in the hate crime, violence against women, and policing hate crime literature, I examine how nine police officers understand gender-motivated violence in …
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Police officers: Perception of self, occupational role, and occupational events.
This study examined police officers' perceptions of self, occupational role and their relation to perceived stress and posttraumatic stress symptomology. Self-report measures for the study variables were completed by 101 police officers. Hypotheses predicted that perception of self and role would …
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Patterns and Predictor of Police Officers' Utilization of Healthcare Services
<p>Police officers need to be physically and mentally fit to do their job, yet officers generally tend to avoid healthcare services. This study investigated police officers’ healthcare-use behaviors, demographic differences in provider use, and perceived barriers to accessing healthcare. An online …
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Chronic trauma effects on personality trait trajectory in police officers
… over time was examined in a sample of urban police officers. Scores from a personality measure taken in pre-hire psychological evaluations were compared with follow up scores administered for this study five to ten years later. An urban police agency of approximately 1000 commissioned police …
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Chronic trauma effects on personality trait trajectory in police officers
… over time was examined in a sample of urban police officers. Scores from a personality measure taken in pre-hire psychological evaluations were compared with follow up scores administered for this study five to ten years later. An urban police agency of approximately 1000 commissioned police …
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A grounded theory study of mindfulness training with police officers
Background: Police work is one of the most stressful and challenging occupations and has been found to have adverse physical and psychological impact on police officers. Considering this impact and a general reluctance to seek help, police forces have been searching for new initiatives to support …
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Factors Important to the Vocational Development of Women Police Officers
<p>Problem</p> <p>The contributions policewomen have made in the relatively short period of their existence have led many police departments to regard women as an indispensable part of the American police force. During the last nine years a large variety of opportunities have become available to …
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Prejudice Formation Toward Minorities by Police Officers in the Workplace
… study was to examine the lived experiences of police officers to determine how they themselves perceive the formation of prejudice among officers and if they believe that their experiences on the job have changed the way they view minorities. Twenty police officers were interviewed in-depth, …
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Are they woke? Understanding the experiences of Black police officers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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A Study of Police Officers with Military Service Backgrounds Compared to Police Officers without Military Service: Can Military Veterans Interact and Properly Engage the Public?
… purpose of this research was to determine if police officers with military experience are less likely to receive civilian complaints for use of force and unprofessional behavior than police officers without military experience. The research consisted of eight research questions that the …
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Born to be Blue? The Constructing of Canadian Police Officers’ Identity
Police professionals navigate competing conceptions of what it means to be a police officer, giving rise to a unique police identity crisis (Hunt, 2021; Pickett et al., 2022). Given the dynamic nature of personal and professional self-identity, this crisis can be examined through discursive …
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The Psychological Vest: Trauma, Resiliency, and Posttraumatic Growth Among Police Officers
Police officers are often required to make split-second decisions in unpredictable and ambiguous critical situations, while held to extremely high moral and ethical standards and intense public scrutiny. Given their level of trauma exposure and risk for traumatic and morally injurious distress, it …
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A study of public order police officers' perceptions of traumatic symptomatology
The present study examined Public Order Police Officers' perceptions of traumatic symptomatology. The study consists of three aims. The first aim was to ascertain the type of traumatic symptomatology members of the Public Order Police experience. The second aim was to determine whether rank has an …
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A Content Analysis of Section 1983 Litigation Against Reserve Police Officers
<p>Police studies have well developed a demonstrative framework for detailing risks which generate financially-detrimental civil litigation – particularly regarding 42 U.S.C. §1983. Conversely, though, police studies have given little attention to the often-used but differentially-trained reserve …
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Pedagogy and professionalization: examining the learning styles of Ontario police officers
… performance, and operational integrity of police services. Despite this significance, police education and training remain neglected areas of research. Existing studies have examined learning style preferences across various occupations and student groups; however, members of law …
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