As police management has become more professional and organised, there has
become a greater appreciation of the contribution psychology can make to
various aspects of policing. Indeed, psychological research has been influential
in ...
Author: Nicholas Blagden
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780857254658
Category: Social Science
Page: 112
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A comprehensive and up-to-date new undergraduate text on the application and impact of psychology on modern policing.This text is recommended reading for two groups: *police and public safety administators whose work takes them--or should take them--into contact with police psychologists; *practicing and would-be police psychologists concerned with the ...
Author: Martin I. Kurke
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781135807436
Category: Psychology
Page: 550
View: 728
As we approach the 21st century, there is a discernable shift in policing, from an incident-driven perspective to a proactive problem solving stance often described as "community policing." In this volume a panel of 21 psychologists examine the changing directions in policing and how such changes impact on psychological service delivery and operational support to law enforcement agencies. The book describes existing and emerging means of providing psychological support to the law enforcement community in response to police needs to accommodate new technology, community-oriented problem solving technology, crime prevention, and sensitivity to community social changes. Senior psychologists who are sworn officers, federal agents and civilian employees of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies comprise the team of chapter authors. Their perspectives encompass their collective experience "in the trenches" and in law enforcement management and administrative support roles. They discuss traditional applications of psychology to police selection, training and promotion processes, and in trauma stress management and evaluation of fitness for duty. Concerns related to police diversity and police family issues are also addressed, as are unique aspects of police stress management. Additional chapters are dedicated to establishing psychological service functions that currently are less familiar to police agencies than they are to other government and private sector service recipients. These chapters are devoted to police psychologists as human resource professionals, as human factors experts in accommodating to new technology and to new legal requirements, as organizational behavioral experts, and as strategic planners. This text is recommended reading for two groups: *police and public safety administators whose work takes them--or should take them--into contact with police psychologists; *practicing and would-be police psychologists concerned with the emerging trends in the application of psychology to police and other public safety programs.PSYCHOLOGY AND OPERATIONAL POLICING The behavior of police at the
worksite (e.g., on the street, in a private home, at the police station or in a jail cell,
in the interview or line-up room) is influenced by a range of psychological factors.
Author: Neil Brewer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781134780501
Category: Psychology
Page: 454
View: 664
Psychological theory and research have much to contribute to the knowledge and skill bases underlying effective policing. Much of the relevant information, however, is dispersed across a variety of different psychological and criminal justice/policing journals and seldom integrated for those applied psychologists interested in policing issues or for police policymakers/administrators and others working in the criminal justice area who are not familiar with the psychological literature. Designed to accommodate the needs of these different groups, this book addresses both operational policing issues and issues relevant to the improvement of organizational functioning by providing integrative reviews of psychological theory and research that deal with effective policing. It illustrates how the theory and research reviewed are relevant to specific policing practices. These include eyewitness testimony, conflict resolution, changing driver behavior, controlling criminal behavior, effective interviewing, and techniques of face reconstruction. The volume's readable style makes it accessible to a diverse audience including undergraduate and postgraduate students in forensic/organizational/applied psychology, criminal justice, and police science programs, and police administrators and policymakers. It will also interest psychologists whose primary focus includes policing and criminal justice issues. The book should draw attention to the often unrecognized and valuable contribution that mainstream psychology can make to the knowledge base underpinning a wide variety of policing practices.In this volume we have looked at a number of ways in which psychology might be
applied profitably to policing. It has been stressed that there are a multitude of
areas in which the results of psychological research have relevance for police ...
Author: Peter Ainsworth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135997830
Category: Social Science
Page: 224
View: 670
Applied psychology has become increasingly important in the work of policing, police training and the academic study of policing. This book provides a highly accessible account of the way in which psychological principles and practices are applied to policing, reflecting the increasing attention being given to this area in the light of recent concerns about police training and its effectiveness - for example the MacPherson report. The book sets out the main areas of applied psychology which have particular relevance for policing, looking at how these impact in practice on police work - retrieving information, interviewing suspects, understanding crime patterns and profiling offenders, and negotiation and hostage taking. The author concludes with an assessment of the usefulness of psychology in police work, and the pitfalls and problems which arise with its use.This book provides an overview of how psychology can be applied in this context, drawing upon a number of different areas of psychology - including cognitive, forensic, organisational and social psychology - to explore the ways in which ...
Author: Peter B. Ainsworth
Publisher: Willan Pub
ISBN: 1903240441
Category: Social Science
Page: 184
View: 417
"Applied psychology has become increasingly important in the work of the police and in their training. This book provides an overview of how psychology can be applied in this context, drawing upon a number of different areas of psychology - including cognitive, forensic, organisational and social psychology - to explore the ways in which psychological research can be applied and utilized in the complex world of policing."--Publisher.This book is the first to explore how psychological knowledge and research can be used to enhance police performance on a range of operational tasks. Each chapter encourages critical reflection followed by suggested further reading.
Author: Jason Roach
Publisher:
ISBN: 1447325923
Category: Psychology
Page: 176
View: 787
One of the developments in policing that has contributed to the emergence of
investigative psychology is the increasing openness of police forces to academic
work and their embracing of scientific approaches to crime management.
Author: David V. Canter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470023976
Category: Psychology
Page: 486
View: 206
This ground-breaking text is the first to provide a detailed overview of Investigative Psychology, from the earliest work through to recent studies, including descriptions of previously unpublished internal reports. Crucially it provides a framework for students to explore this exciting terrain, combining Narrative Theory and an Action Systems framework. It includes empirically tested models for Offender Profiling and guidance for investigations, as well as an agenda for research in Investigative Psychology. Investigative Psychology features: The full range of crimes from fraud to terrorism, including burglary, serial killing, arson, rape, and organised crime Important methodologies including multi-dimensional scaling and the Radex approach as well as Social Network Analysis Geographical Offender Profiling, supported by detailed analysis of the underlying psychological processes that make this such a valuable investigative decision support tool The full range of investigative activities, including effective information collection, detecting deception and the development of decision support systems. In effect, this text introduces an exciting new paradigm for a wide range of psychological contributions to all forms of investigation within and outside of law enforcement. Each chapter has actual cases and quotations from offenders and ends with questions for discussion and research, making this a valuable text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Applied and Forensic Psychology, Criminology, Socio-Legal Studies and related disciplines.The legal consequences of using psychological measures for employee
screening and selection have become a prominent issue in recent years.
Legislation has prompted all law enforcement agencies to examine their
employment practices ...
Author: Curt R. Bartol
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781412958301
Category: Psychology
Page: 555
View: 212
While students most often associate forensic psychology with criminal profiling, crime scene investigations, and serial murder, the Second Edition of Introduction to Forensic Psychology covers the many others areas where psychology has played a significant role in providing research knowledge to the civil and criminal justice systems. Practical applications and case law are discussed along with a summary of contemporary research and practice across a broad spectrum of topics. New to the Second Edition: - More contemporary developmental and biological material in criminal behaviour sections - Includes more on the relationship between mental disorders and crime and violence. - More examples throughout the text, with a case at the beginning of each chapter - Now covers topics such as: the death penalty, restorative justice, civil forensic issues, arson and typologies of juvenile firesetters, and eyewitness identification and discrimination - New learning objectives at beginning of each chapter, review questions at the ends of each chapter, a list of key concepts defined, chapter summaries, boxes - More visually appealing with 2-colour page design: improved design of figures and tables.1 History of Police Psychology Jack Kitaeff The professions of policing,
psychology, and police psychology have grown ... of modern police work and of
the modern application of psychological principles to police work and law
enforcement.
Author: Jack Kitaeff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136861697
Category: Psychology
Page: 592
View: 375
The Handbook of Police Psychology represents the contributions of over thirty police psychologists, all experts in their field, on the core subject matters of police psychology. Police psychology is broadly defined as the application of psychological principles and methods to law enforcement. This growing area includes topics such as screening and hiring of police officers; conducting screening for special squads (e.g., SWAT); fitness-for-duty evaluations; investigations, hostage negotiations; training and consultation, and stress counseling, among others. The book examines the beginnings of police psychology and early influences on the profession such as experimental investigations of psychological testing on police attitude and performance. Influential figures in the field of police psychology are discussed, including the nation’s first full-time police psychologist who served on the Los Angeles Police Department, and the first full-time police officer to earn a doctorate in psychology while still in uniform with the New York Police Department.Increasingly, psychologists are attempting to apply research results to police
recruit selection, police training and police operations. These applications are the
concern of this chapter. The Applications of Psychology to Policing Psychologists
...
Author: Friedrich Lösel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110879773
Category: Psychology
Page: 585
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In P . D . Blanck , Interpersonal Expectations . New York : Cambridge University
Press . Blau , T . ( 1994 ) Psychological Services for Law Enforcement .
Chichester : Wiley . Boon , J . & Davies , G . ( 1993 ) Criminal Profiling . Policing ,
9 ( 8 ) , 1 ...
Author: Peter B. Ainsworth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
ISBN: STANFORD:36105012426958
Category: Psychology
Page: 266
View: 305
This book draws together the many strands of applied psychology which are relevant to policing in the 1990s. Police training has undergone considerable changes over the last few years, with far more emphasis being put on such subjects as psychology.Laurence Alison In the 1969 Presidential address to the American Psychological
Association, George A. Miller outlined how psychologists were responsible for
fostering accounts of human behaviour that did not connect with, nor could be ...
Author: Laurence Alison
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136732973
Category: Social Science
Page: 288
View: 323
The aim of this book is to examine the qualities of leadership and decision-making in the police service. Based on groundbreaking research using unique, advanced methods for examining policing in complex critical incident environments, the book focuses principally on a series of police debriefs following live major critical incidents. It captures the views of the Senior Investigating Officers (SIOs) who worked on these cases and draws upon the very rich set of experiences that they have had in dealing with complex, stressful and demanding enquiries. The book provides an introduction to new methods for exploring leadership and decision-making in critical incidents. It will be an essential resource for developers of police training in leadership and decision-making, senior police officers involved in critical incident management, organisational psychologists who work within policing, and for students whose area of study covers policing, decision-making or criminal investigation.Lagos, Nigeria: Centre for Law Enforcement Education and National Human
Rights Commission. Aremu, A.O., & Adeyoju, C.A. (1998). Enhancing job
satisfaction of the Nigeria Police. Nigerian Journal ofApplied Psychology, 4(1), 44
–48.
Author: Arvind Verma
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781466575899
Category: Law
Page: 290
View: 521
In nations all over the world, community policing has been found extremely beneficial in improving public confidence in the police. Community-oriented policing and police-citizen cooperation is now the accepted framework for all progressive police departments. Drawn from the proceedings at the 2010 International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) inThis timely text offers an extensive and current overview of the services psychologists can offer to law enforcement.
Author: Theodore H. Blau
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471559504
Category: Psychology
Page: 454
View: 779
In 1989, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies mandated that every police authority seeking accreditation with the Commission must have access to psychological support and consultation. This timely text offers an extensive and current overview of the services psychologists can offer to law enforcement. Organized under major subject areas--assessment, intervention, consultation and training--it deals with such issues as officer recruit selection, fitness for duty evaluations, stress counseling, hostage negotiation, investigative hypnosis, psychological profiling, management consultations and much more.In the preceding chapters, the focus has been on the contribution psychology can
make to help understand why an individual ... The main body of research into
police and policing comes principally from criminology, law, politics, and
sociology ...
Author: Clive R. Hollin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135107390
Category: Social Science
Page: 438
View: 921
Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms of pain, fear and loss is incalculable. Psychology and Crime comprehensively covers the vital role of psychological theories and methods in understanding and managing criminal behaviour. It analyzes in depth the application of psychological findings to a range of serious crimes, such as arson, violent crime, and sexual crime. It examines the use of psychology by the police and the courts and discusses the role of psychology in crime reduction strategies. Written by a leading authority on the subject and informed by over twenty years of teaching experience, the second edition of this popular text has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the most recent research in the field. New features also include: Expansive coverage of the development of criminal behaviour; Chapter summaries and end-of-chapter discussion points; Text boxes throughout highlighting key issues, debates and brief histories; Supplementary online resources at www.routledge.com/cw/hollin. Psychology and Crime is an essential introduction and reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students in psychology, criminology, sociology and related subjects. It also represents an invaluable resource for professional training courses and anyone planning a career in the criminal justice system.and. Psychological. Perspectives. robin bryant Introduction in this chapter we
examine a number of criminological and psychological perspectives and discuss
how these might help with the policing of cyber and other network-related crimes.
Author: Dr Robin Bryant
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781472402561
Category: Social Science
Page: 276
View: 613
By its very nature digital crime may present a number of specific detection and investigative challenges. The use of steganography to hide child abuse images for example, can pose the kind of technical and legislative problems inconceivable just two decades ago. The volatile nature of much digital evidence can also pose problems, particularly in terms of the actions of the 'first officer on the scene'. There are also concerns over the depth of understanding that 'generic' police investigators may have concerning the possible value (or even existence) of digitally based evidence. Furthermore, although it is perhaps a cliché to claim that digital crime (and cybercrime in particular) respects no national boundaries, it is certainly the case that a significant proportion of investigations are likely to involve multinational cooperation, with all the complexities that follow from this. This groundbreaking volume offers a theoretical perspective on the policing of digital crime in the western world. Using numerous case-study examples to illustrate the theoretical material introduced this volume examine the organisational context for policing digital crime as well as crime prevention and detection. This work is a must-read for all academics, police practitioners and investigators working in the field of digital crime.Peter B. Ainsworth As modern history, recent publications, and indeed this
conference have shown, the areas of psychology which are of relevance to
policing have increased substantially in recent years. (See Ainsworth, 1995;
Brewer ...
Author: János Boros
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110804799
Category: Psychology
Page: 482
View: 850
The Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law publishes single
author and edited reviews of emerging areas of contemporary research. The
purpose of this series is not merely to present research findings in a clear and ...
Author: Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470857946
Category: Psychology
Page: 704
View: 394
This volume, a sequel to The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony which is widely acclaimed by both scientists and practitioners, brings the field completely up-to-date and focuses in particular on aspects of vulnerability, confabulation and false confessions. The is an unrivalled integration of scientific knowledge of the psychological processes and research relating to interrogation, with the practical investigative and legal issues that bear upon obtaining, and using in court, evidence from interrogations of suspects. * Accessible style which will appeal to academics, students and practitioners * Authoritative integration of theory, research, practical implications and vivid case illustration * Coverage of topical issues like confabulation, false memory, and false confessions Part of the Wiley Series in The Psychology of Crime, Policing and LawPolicing Interviewing Negotiation POLICING In the UK and most other countries,
the police serve a wide range of functions. These primarily entail enforcing the
criminal law and investigating criminal offences but include a variety of other
tasks ...
Author: Aidan Sammons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135643003
Category: Psychology
Page: 216
View: 531
What does a Criminological Psychologist do? The popular image is that of a latter-day Sherlock Holmes helping the police to solve crimes and mysteries, but the reality is much more complex. Psychology and Crime is a new introduction to the topic of Criminological Psychology that helps dispel these popular myths by providing a comprehensive overview of the topic of Criminological Psychology. The book includes both classic and contemporary psychological theory and research on a range of criminological issues including the nature, measurement and causes of crime, police work and offender profiling, eye-witness memory, trial procedures, jury decision making and the treatment of crime. Putwain and Sammons have produced an introductory text which covers the material on this topic in the A2 components of the AQA-B, OCR and Edexcel A-Level specifications. Psychology and Crime is also ideal for undergraduate students looking for an introduction to criminological psychology and for students studying psychology and media. It will also be useful for those who work in fields related to criminology such as the police and probation services, social workers and therapists.