{"title":"Towards a better understanding of police experience: An assessment of the unique shifts, crime areas, and duty assignments that officers have worked","authors":"Logan J. Somers","doi":"10.1177/0032258X211064710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X211064710","url":null,"abstract":"Using the survey data from 791 officers in a large western police department in the United States, the current study assesses how officers’ unique work experiences (i.e., shifts, crime areas, and duty assignments) vary and culminate throughout a career in policing. Findings provide a glimpse into the early socialization and work experiences of novice officers and how experiences manifest across officers as they gain years on the job. The results also show that there is particularly high variation in the career work experiences amongst the most tenured officers, which calls into question the validity of using only length of service to measure officer experience. This study closes by discussing the implications that these findings have for future research and practice.","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84477515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Connie M. Tang, Merydawilda Colón, Heather Swenson Brilla
{"title":"Homework completion program in Atlantic County, NJ: The first five years","authors":"Connie M. Tang, Merydawilda Colón, Heather Swenson Brilla","doi":"10.1177/0032258X211066033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X211066033","url":null,"abstract":"This research examined the Homework Completion Program in Atlantic County, NJ, where college students and police officers tutored children with homework. Children (N = 154) reported their impression of police officers and perception of the program. Across 5 years and three program sites, children chose completing homework as the best part about the program and they mostly reported feeling happy when seeing a police officer and finding police officers if they needed help. In summary, the program has shown promise in achieving the goals of preparing children for a college education and building trust between children and police officers.","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72412667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brooke McQuerrey Tuttle, Yeokil Cho, Tia C. Waldrop
{"title":"Pre-career exposure to violence as a predictor of emotional distress among police recruits","authors":"Brooke McQuerrey Tuttle, Yeokil Cho, Tia C. Waldrop","doi":"10.1177/0032258X211064712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X211064712","url":null,"abstract":"The occupational risks to police mental health are widely known; however, less is known about how early life experiences and pre-academy stressors influence the emotional wellness of recruits in an academy setting. The present study investigated the links between pre-career exposure to violence and emotional wellness among a sample of 1,072 police recruits. Results of path analyses revealed that direct exposure to physical violence prior to age 18 was a significant factor for recruit emotional distress, whereas indirect exposure to violence did not significantly predict emotional distress. Findings carry implications for considering a lifespan approach to understanding police stress.","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89771822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The police journalPub Date : 2021-03-01Epub Date: 2019-12-17DOI: 10.1177/0032258X19894619
Stephanie Korol, Kelsey D Vig, Michelle J N Teale Sapach, Gordon J G Asmundson, R Nicholas Carleton
{"title":"Demographic and cognitive risk factors for police mental disorder symptoms.","authors":"Stephanie Korol, Kelsey D Vig, Michelle J N Teale Sapach, Gordon J G Asmundson, R Nicholas Carleton","doi":"10.1177/0032258X19894619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X19894619","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study was designed to assess whether cognitive risk factors (i.e. anxiety sensitivity (AS), intolerance of uncertainty (IU)) explained variance in mental disorder symptoms in Canadian police officers beyond variance explained by demographic variables (i.e. sex, marital status, education, years of service). Police participants (708 men; 271 women) completed measures assessing posttraumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, IU and AS. Multivariate analysis of variance demonstrated that only main effects of sex were significant for all symptom variables, except SAD. Hierarchical multiple regressions demonstrated that AS and IU accounted for greater variance than sex on all mental disorder symptom measures, which suggests that cognitive risk factors explain more variance in mental disorder symptoms than sex. Efforts to reduce AS and IU may be beneficial for improving police mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0032258X19894619","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25475374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The police journalPub Date : 2017-06-01Epub Date: 2016-11-11DOI: 10.1177/0032258X16672470
Renze Salet
{"title":"Framing in criminal investigation: How police officers (re)construct a crime.","authors":"Renze Salet","doi":"10.1177/0032258X16672470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X16672470","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Failures in criminal investigation may lead to wrongful convictions. Insight in the criminal investigation process is needed to understand how these investigative failures may rise and how measures can contribute to the prevention of this kind of failures. Some of the main findings of an empirical study of the criminal investigation process in four cases of major investigations are presented here. This criminal investigation process is analyzed as a process of framing, using Goffman's framing (Goffman, 1975) and interaction theories (Goffman, 1990). It shows that in addition to framing, other substantive and social factors affect the criminal investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0032258X16672470","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35463611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prosecution failure to disclose information: Allison (Steven Edwards) v HM Advocate [2010] UKSC 6, McInnes (Paul) v HM Advocate [2010] UKSC 7","authors":"D. Wicks, D. Carney","doi":"10.1358/POJO.2010.83.2.520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1358/POJO.2010.83.2.520","url":null,"abstract":"Two separate appeals to the Supreme Court from the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland relating to whether the failure of the prosecution to disclose certain information about prosecution witnesses amounted to unfair proceedings contrary to Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80471254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anonymous blogs by serving police officers: author of a blog v Times Newspaper Limited High Court (Queen's Bench) 16 June 2009","authors":"D. Carney","doi":"10.1358/POJO.2010.83.1.505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1358/POJO.2010.83.1.505","url":null,"abstract":"Justice Eady in the High Court hears application for an interim injunction from a serving police officer to prevent a newspaper from revealing that the officer was an anonymous blogger commenting on police matters.","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77878273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of earsay evidence from absent witnesses","authors":"D. Wicks, D. Carney","doi":"10.1358/POJO.2009.82.4.486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1358/POJO.2009.82.4.486","url":null,"abstract":"The House of Lords (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Carswell, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance) considered the Appellants appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal (under the name R v T), dismissing his appeal against conviction in the Crown Court of a number of offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82373229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence of bad character: R v McKenzie (Mark Anthony Robert) [2008] EWCA Crim 758, R v Doncaster (Roger George) [2008] EWCA Crim 5","authors":"D. Wicks, D. Carney","doi":"10.1358/POJO.2008.81.3.447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1358/POJO.2008.81.3.447","url":null,"abstract":"(1). The Court of Appeal (Toulson LJ, Penry-Davey and Simon JJ) considered whether evidence of the defendant’s bad driving on previous occasions was properly admissible at the defendant’s trial on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving. (2). The Court of Appeal (Rix LJ, Swift J and Sir Richard Curtis) considered whether evidence of misconduct falling short of conviction of a criminal offence should have been admitted at the defendant’s trial, and whether, absent any relevant convictions, the judge should have given the jury a 'good character' direction.","PeriodicalId":87373,"journal":{"name":"The police journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75459272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}