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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Police--Attitudes"”.
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Exploratory Investigation of Police Attitudes Toward Violence (Aggression, Law Enforcement, Use of Force, Criminal Justice)
… personal and background characteristics and attitudes toward violence of sworn police officers; and (2) to determine the possible relationships of individual measures of attitudes toward violence with length of police service. It was postulated that such measures and relationships must first …
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The Influence of Individual Characteristics on Police Cynicism and Police Job Satisfaction
Police cynicism was first defined and explored by Niederhoffer (1967). Cynicism has since been attributed as a negative characteristic that is considered an inevitable outcome of the police profession (Caplan, 2003; Graves, 1996; Niederrhoffer, 1967). This negative characteristic of the police …
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Police training in sexual assault response: Comparison of approaches
The literature abounds with criticism of negative police attitudes and behavior toward sexual assault victims, and a number of authors have responded with calls for improved training in this area. Unfortunately, very few such programs are described in the literature and almost none are …
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The double edged sword of depersonalization: An examination of depersonalization's role in the police profession
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Examining the antecedents of the work motivation in the context of Turkish national police
The present study enhances our understanding of police officers' work motivation in the context of Turkey. An extensive literature review was devoted in order to develop a revised model for examining the antecedents of the police officers' work motivation. The model was developed based on the …
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Policing and firearms: exploring data collection practices and attitudes toward gun control
… the types of information that are recorded in police reports. Using a test population of police officers (n = 90) and students (n = 131), a self administered, anonymous survey was used to test the hypotheses that police officers are a) more likely to support gun control policies, b) more likely …
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The Role of Ethnic Minority Communities and Identities in Explaining Relationships with and Attitudes toward the Police in the London Borough of Hackney
… to young people’s relationships with and attitudes toward the police. The study’s key question is: is ethnicity salient for understanding people’s views of the police in Hackney? In answering this question, I adopt Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) systemic framework, which proposes that the …