Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

Brown, R. A., & Frank, J. (2006). Race and officer decision making: Examining differences in arrest outcomes between Black a ...

Research also has found that novice and experi- enced officers employed different frames for making decisions. In making arrest ...

they see the mentally ill wife as less credible and more dangerous. Interview studies have found that police officers are less l ...

Finn, M. A., Blackwell, B. S., Stalans, L. J., Studdard, S., & Dugan, L. (2004). Dual arrest decisions in domestic violence ...

encounter the police when they manifest abnormal behaviors that require police attention. Types of Police Interactions With the ...

some receive information at roll call, and others get it during formal annual blocks of instruction. Training time varies from a ...

group. Learning takes place through three social phases: pre-entry, entry, and in-service. This sequence involves individuals ma ...

established police practices. Formal lessons involve instruction in a training curriculum, which usually includes the subject ar ...

them to reconcile inconsistencies in their self- concepts and social identity, and thus strengthen and defend them. Formal and i ...

command staff. Typically, the staff psychologist acquires confidence and, most important, trust and credibility as a member of t ...

to be discussed in more detail later in this entry. Along with this most demanding responsibility, the external consultant is al ...

Police (IACP) (1986). Some of the more significant applications of this specialty area are discussed in the following sections. ...

specific members of the section who have experience in the assessment, treatment, and referral (if clinically necessary) of thes ...

issues, and the potential for participation in police psychology research and introduction to other police psychologists by bein ...

predicting what police applicants might say or do on the job—for example, being late or absent, using drugs, violating police pr ...

researchers have suggested that the dismantling of state mental hospitals, the changing mentally ill pop- ulation, the tightenin ...

a police detective analyzes a crime scene, investigates the personal history of the victim, considers motivat- ing factors, link ...

evaluation. However, a dual relationship occurs when in-house or outside psychologists counsel or have counseled an officer whom ...

measure. Psychologists must carry out select-in and screen-out procedures that include evaluations of mental health in accordanc ...

police applicants’ interview performance to supple- ment their psychological test scores. They usually gather background informa ...