Too Many Hats? The Role of Police Officers in Drug Enforcement and the Community

Zakimi, Naomi; Greer, Alissa; Butler, Amanda

doi:10.1093/police/paab082

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“…These complaints to the Inspectorate can be the first indication a socially isolated person with an animal is not coping. Opportunities for enforcement agencies, especially police, to act as referral pathways for social support have been noted in the literature [32,33], and this could help enforcement personnel avoid experiencing moral distress when they encounter situations that would be more effectively managed with social support [34].…”

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Emergency Animal Boarding: A Social Return on Investment

Ma,

Ravulo,

McGeown

2023

Animals

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Companion animals play a central role in many families and are especially valued by those who are socially isolated. Crisis situations such as acute hospitalizations, homelessness, and natural disasters can make it difficult to preserve the human–animal bond and can result in animals being surrendered or euthanized. Social support programs like the RSPCA NSW Emergency Boarding and Homelessness program support people experiencing crisis situations with emergency pet boarding, access to veterinary treatment and individualized case management. This study aimed to estimate the social return on investment (SROI) for this program using the standard SROI methodology. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 program stakeholders and questionnaire responses were received from 29 program clients. Outcomes were quantified for four stakeholder groups: program clients, client’s animals, RSPCA Inspectors, animal pounds, and shelters. Clients and their animals experienced the bulk of the benefit from the program, estimated to have a combined value of over AUD 5 million for the 2020–2021 financial year. The estimated social return on investment was AUD 8.21 for each AUD 1 invested. The study demonstrates that keeping people together with their companion animals or ensuring they are reunited as soon as possible can reduce stressors and improve outcomes for people and animals.

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confidence: 99%

Emergency Animal Boarding: A Social Return on Investment

Ma,

Ravulo,

McGeown

2023

Animals

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“…Many personnel in the criminal justice system are experiencing such role strain, for example, under community policing mandates, police officers are wearing many hats, acting not only as law enforcement agents but also social workers, therapists, health responders, and administrators. This "many hats" problem (Zakimi et al, 2022) is also affecting drug court judges, who must not only be well-versed in procedural law and providing instructions to triers of fact-that is, jurors-for rendering a verdict against criminal defendants, but also nudging alcohol or drug (AOD) defendants who qualify for drug court programs into successful completion of therapeutic programs in order to avoid further, perhaps more onerous sanctions from the conventional criminal court.…”

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Improving Drug Courts: A Preliminary Study

Chriss

Tedor

2023

Academicus International Scientific Journal

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Since the early 1980s, specialized problem-solving courts known as drug courts emerged in the United States as a response to the backlog of drug and alcohol-related cases plaguing the U.S. criminal justice system. In a few decades, with the seeming success of the drug court in helping AOD defendants achieve sobriety while reducing recidivism, the drug court model has achieved international prominence as well. This paper discusses a pilot study which seeks to analyze the feasibility of connecting a website, drughelp.care, developed at the host institution of the co-authors, to the everyday operations of local drug courts. Talcott Parsons’ AGIL schema is utilized as a conceptual template for organizing our thinking about how the website could improve services to administrators and clients according to the unique functional elements of the drug court.

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“…This leads police professionals to live uncertain, ambiguous and potentially stressful situations that, due to the very nature of their profession, they are forced to resolve adequately. Thus, law enforcement professionals are required to assume multiple roles that can result in unclear objectives and expectations that are ignored by passive leaders, experiencing stressful situations that can worse their job stress levels [34] and wellbeing [17], while increasing their counterproductive work behaviors [14] and role-conflict situations [35]. Despite their relevance, the role conflict experienced by employees when laissez-faire leadership is present has not been studied in depth by the previous literature and, even less, whether the law enforcement work context is considered.…”

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How to Prevent Hostile Behaviors and Emotional Exhaustion among Law Enforcement Professionals: The Negative Spiral of Role Conflict

López‐Cabarcos

López-Carballeira

Ferro‐Soto

2023

IJERPH

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The nature and characteristics of the current work environment of law enforcement professionals point out role-conflict situations as one of the main reasons leading to the occurrence of hostile behaviors and the worsening of employees’ well-being. Precisely, this research analyzes the mediating role of role conflict between laissez-faire leadership and hostility or police professionals’ emotional exhaustion. To mitigate the negative effects of role-conflict situations, the moderating role of certain personal resources such as self-efficacy, and organizational variables such as interactional justice, the meaning of the work and family–work enrichment is also analyzed. Structural equation modeling and multigroup analysis are used in a sample of 180 police professionals. The results show that role conflict fully and positively mediates the relationships between laissez-faire leadership and hostile behaviors or emotional exhaustion. Moreover, self-efficacy and interactional justice moderates the relationship between laissez-faire leadership and role conflict; the meaning of the work moderates the relationships between role conflict and hostile behaviors, and family–work enrichment moderates the relationship between role conflict and employees’ emotional exhaustion. The huge relevance of the work of law enforcement professionals and its implications for society justify this research, which aims to highlight the importance of avoiding role-conflict situations to improve labor welfare and prevent counterproductive and unhealthy behaviors.

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Too Many Hats? The Role of Police Officers in Drug Enforcement and the Community

Cited by 11 publications

References 31 publications

Emergency Animal Boarding: A Social Return on Investment

Emergency Animal Boarding: A Social Return on Investment

Improving Drug Courts: A Preliminary Study

How to Prevent Hostile Behaviors and Emotional Exhaustion among Law Enforcement Professionals: The Negative Spiral of Role Conflict

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