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Psychology Policing.
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 bei...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Person perception and interpersonal skills; Impression formation; Non-verbal communication; Eye contact and other speech regulaton; The relationship between verbal and non-verbal communication; Summary; Further reading; 2 Athibution, prejudice and stereotyping; Attribution; Prejudice and stereotyping; Ethnocentrism and social identity theory; Summary; Further reading; 3 Recruitment, selection and training; Should psychological testing be used at all?; How can psychological testing help?
- What qualities should psychological tests be looking for?What qualities should the police be looking for in recruits?; What problems might testing not be able to address?; Are the dimensions that are tested stable?; How might tests be validated and evaluated?; Job analysis and the combination of measures; Training and the acceptance of psychology; Who should conduct training?; Summary; Further reading; 4 Aggression and violence; Defining aggression and violence; Aggression as an innate drive; Aggression as a response to external stimuli.
- Aggression as a learned response
- social learning theoryAttitudes towards different forms of aggression; Violence by police officers; Summary; Further reading; 5 Perception and memory; Does perception work like a video camera?; Does the criminal justice system have unrealistic expectations of eyewitnesses?; How does perception work?; Perception as a learned process; Perception as a constructive process; Inaccuracies and biases in perception; The effects of context; Selectivity and perception; Memory
- storing and retrieving information; The transformation of memories.
- The importance of question wordingIs alteration of memories more likely in certain circumstances?; Factors that might affect witnesses at the time of recall; Summary; Further reading; 6 Rehieving information; The cognitive interview technique; The mechanics of the ClT; Hypnosis; Summary; Further reading; 7 Interviewing suspects; Investigative interviewing; Identifying those who are lying; False confessions; Types of confessions; Who is most likely to confess?; Interviewing tactics in Britain and in the US; The power of situations; Summary; Further reading; 8 Stress and policing.
- Definitions of stressSituations or events as stressors; Life events and policing; Individual differences and the experience of stress; Reactions to stress; Post traumatic stress disorder; Summary; Further reading; 9 Crime patterns and offender profiling; The distribution of offending; Accounting for criminal events; Crime analysis and the choice of victims; Repeat victimisation; The relevance of place and target selection; Geographic profiling; Offender profiling; Summary; Further reading; 10 Hostage taking and negotiation; Types of hostage situations; Responding to hostage situations.