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Police Use of Discretion in Encounters with People with Opioid Use Disorder: a Study of Illinois Police Officers
Police frequently encounter people with opioid use disorder (OUD), having a profound effect on their risk environment and health outcomes. Officers...
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Social and Organizational Perception Toward Women Police: A Study of Metropolitan Police in Develo** Country
This study has examined the societal and organizational attitudes toward female police currently working in the Sylhet Metropolitan area of...
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The Role of Stigma and Confidentiality in Police Officer Utilization of Stress Relief Programs
Police officers face challenges from operational and organizational stressors. Officers often have access to stress relief programs offered by their...
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Contradictions Between Community-Oriented Police Training and Paramilitary Police Training: Implications for Police Recruit Mental Health Response Training
The increasingly professionalised role of the police requires police organisations to transition away from paramilitary policing models and embrace...
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Situation Awareness in Tactical Police Interventions
In extreme situations, the police have limited time to react when a threat or a situation arises suddenly. Situation awareness has been identified as...
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Impact of Police Work on Police Officers’ Spouses: a Study of Marital Quality and Quality of Life
Despite reports documenting adverse effects of stress due to work on police officers’ marriages, few empirical studies focus on the effect of police...
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Law Enforcement Agencies’ College Education Hiring Requirements and Racial Differences in Police-Related Fatalities
This study examines the effects of agency education requirements on racial differences in police-related fatalities (PRFs) across 235 large US cities...
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Real Policing: An Exploration In Police Legitimacy
The police require legitimacy in order to function. It is argued that this legitimacy can be attained through procedural justice; that is, fairness....
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The Intersection of Masculinity and Mental Health in Police Organizational Culture
Develo** research indicates a relationship between hegemonic masculinity and adverse mental health outcomes. This link is particularly important...
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Understanding the Workload of Police Investigators: a Human Factors Approach
Criminal investigative work entails a diverse array of tasks and responsibilities, ranging from interviewing suspects and victims to managing the...
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Law and Disorder: Assessing Conflicting News Coverage of Police Use of Force
The 2020 publicized deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have increased social attention to incidents of police use of force in the USA. The...
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Improving Violent Extremism Risk Communication among German Police Agencies: A Survey of Federal and State Threat Managers
The effective communication of the risk of violent extremism using either numerical or semantic systems represents an important challenge for police...
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More than Psychometric Properties of the Fear of Covid-19 Scale. The Struggle of the Portuguese Police Officers
The Covid-19 pandemic conveyed consequences for people’s physical and mental health. During the worst pandemic scenarios, police officers were one of...
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A 2021 Survey of Police & Public Safety Psychologists: Proposed Guidelines for Conducting Periodic Wellness Visits (WVs) vs. Mental Health Evaluations (MHEs) with Working Police/Public Safety Officers
A survey of 30 proposed guidelines for conducting confidential “wellness visits/resiliency reviews” vs. non-confidential “mental health evaluations”...
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Psychological First Aid Training of Police Officers
A significant lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of psychological first aid (PFA) training of first responders to emergency settings has...
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A Descriptive Study of Police Officer Access to Mental Health Services
The culture of policing is thought to emphasize maladaptive methods of co** with stress, such as the use of alcohol, rather than seeking out mental...
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Police Social Work and Social Justice: Lessons for Clinical Social Work Practice
Clinical social work practice is increasingly informed by theoretical frameworks that attend to social justice. These frameworks include the just...
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Identifying and Unpacking the Role of Social Identity in Moderating Evaluations of Police-Civilian Interactions
Scholars and policy makers rely on the theory of procedural justice (PJ) to further the twin goals of improving police-civilian relations and...
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Associations Between Personality and Mental Health Among Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cadets
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) report frequent exposures to diverse potentially psychological traumatic events (PPTEs) that can lead to...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Miscommunication in UK Police Interviews and US Police Interrogations
This is the first comparative empirical study of miscommunication in US police interrogations and UK police interviews with suspects. The research...
