The Police Culture: Research Implications for Psychological Services.

Woody, Robert H.

doi:10.1037/0735-7028.36.5.525

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“…There have been several studies exploring the depths and range of police subcultures (Fielding 1988;Garcia 2005;Griffin and Bernard 2003;Holdaway 1983;Manning 1977;Micucci and Gomme 2005;Narayanan 2005;Paoline 2004;Reiner 1992;Young 1991;Van Maanen 1973;Woody 2005). From the large amount of research into the police subculture several examples of the development or acquisition of attitudinal changes emerge.…”

Section: Police Stress and Role Conflictmentioning

confidence: 96%

Toward a Balanced Approach: Defining Police Roles in Responding to Domestic Violence

2008

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Responding to domestic violence poses unique challenges to law enforcement officers. Prior research has focused on issues such as officer safety and arrest policies but overlooked a critical component-the officers' perception of their role in responding to domestic violence incidents. This study explores how police officers define their roles through the use of focus group interviews with detectives assigned to a domestic violence unit. Findings include the identification of three role perspectives. Recommendations for a more balanced approach of these role perspectives in responding to domestic violence crimes through the use of more effective training, supervision, and evaluation are proposed.

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Section: Police Stress and Role Conflictmentioning

confidence: 96%

Toward a Balanced Approach: Defining Police Roles in Responding to Domestic Violence

2008

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“…Stress also appears to cause cognitive deficiencies such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and neuroses, as well as emotional challenges in the form of depression, avoidance, withdrawal, substance abuse and cynicism (Anderson et al 2002;Gibson et al 2001). The collective influence of these stressors is monumental producing, among other things, higher rates of divorce, domestic violence and suicide than exist in the general population (Abdollahi 2002;Terry 1981;Woody 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

An Examination of Officer Stress: Should Police Departments Implement Mandatory Counseling?

Carlan

Nored

2008

J Police Crim Psych

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This study suggests that police departments who promote counseling benefit from officer stress reduction. Officers from sixteen municipal police departments (n= 1,114) across the state of Alabama possessed moderate stress, but were influenced significantly by organizational demographics (including counseling opportunities). A majority of officers believed that stress signs were not predictive of police suitability but remained reluctant to share fears and anxieties with fellow colleagues, suggesting that officers feared the stigma associated with the need for stress counseling. Officers working in supportive counseling climates had significantly less stress, a reduced need for counseling, and a greater willingness to use counseling. Officers who engaged in counseling (at least occasionally) also reported more stress, indicating an awareness of their need for counseling. The authors concluded that police departments should consider requiring mandatory and periodic counseling for all officers, a procedural tactic that camouflages counseling need while concurrently treating the source of officer stress.

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“…The law enforcement field is characterized by a unique form of subculture, the so-called "police culture" [5], which is identified, on the one hand, by internal solidarity, brotherhood, and support and, on the other hand, by isolation from society. In the police culture, open expression of fear or emotions in response to highly charged events, including life-threatening and traumatic events on the job or loss of colleagues -often through completed suicide -is usually seen as being unacceptable [6].…”

Section: Police Culture and Its Interface With Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

Employing Police Training as a Tool of Preventive Intervention of Police Complex Trauma: A Brief Report from a Module Presented at the 2011 European Police College Train the Trainers Seminar

Papazoglou¹,

Manzella²

2012

J Forensic Res

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Currently, the focus and information about training police officers relates primarily to physical and mental fitness and ways to help others. There are very few resources and almost no information available to guide police officers about ways to handle loss and trauma. Officers respond to critical incidents that have the potential to be traumatic and that can precipitate a traumatic response that, in turn, may negatively affect their physical and mental health. The unique nature of a career in law enforcement is that trauma as inevitable and an expected part of the job and that unresolved effects of trauma have the potential to accumulate over a whole career. Police trainers/educators are in a unique position to address this because all police officers are often first-line responders and therefore, first line helpers. The authors provided a module related to training about trauma to European police educators participating in the 2011 "Train the Trainers" 2nd step seminar held in the Police University in Muenster, Germany. They introduced three interventions (education, journal writing, and a mindfulness/awareness exercise) to discern what was effective and possibly could be implemented into police training. It was clear that police trainers made the distinction that they are not therapists, but that they can be a supportive blue brother or sister to their trainees. The principal aim was to create bridges between law enforcement and mental health professionals so that the services developed and offered by mental health professionals could be useful and "palatable" to police officers.

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The Police Culture: Research Implications for Psychological Services.

Cited by 64 publications

References 23 publications

Toward a Balanced Approach: Defining Police Roles in Responding to Domestic Violence

Toward a Balanced Approach: Defining Police Roles in Responding to Domestic Violence

An Examination of Officer Stress: Should Police Departments Implement Mandatory Counseling?

Employing Police Training as a Tool of Preventive Intervention of Police Complex Trauma: A Brief Report from a Module Presented at the 2011 European Police College Train the Trainers Seminar

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