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Death work : police, trauma, and the psychology of survival /
Contemporary urban police officers are routinely exposed to the death of others, as well as to frequent and profound encounters with their own mortality. Here, Vincent Henry draws on two disparate bodies of theory and research - policing and the psychology of human responses to death - to illuminate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The death and policing Nexus
- Death work : the general context
- Police survivors of death encounters : theoretical perspective and strategy of inquiry
- "Becoming a cop" : basic social and psychological processes
- The rookie's experience : introduction to death
- Patrol sergeants : routinization of the death encounter
- Crime scene detectives : 'technicizing' the death encounter
- Homicide detectives : emotional reactions to violent death
- Police survivors : genuine threats to the sense of immortality
- Reflections and observations.