Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

Most police agencies recognize and use the psycho- logical evaluation as one component of the police selection process, but not ...

blindness or paralysis), counter disaster syndrome (excessive excitement and overinvolvement), peace- keepers’ acute syndrome (r ...

careers, an intense experience that brings accumulated frustrations to the foreground, lack of career fulfill- ment, family cons ...

hold racist attitudes, or experience severe family con- flicts. Departments can develop systems of interven- tion targeted towar ...

their executive officers (e.g., chiefs) from having to participate in some types of in-service training, such as self-defense ta ...

from their own, which leads to uncertainty and inter- cultural conflicts. When police officers make hitherto unknown cultures fa ...

Practical examinations involve evaluation of perfor- mance on hands-on or scenario-based tasks. For exam- ple, a police trainer ...

know with confidence is that officers consider citizen behavior most important when making decisions to use force. A need to use ...

Personality Traits Police psychologists use personality tests to predict police candidates’ behavioral predispositions to use fo ...

See alsoPolice Decision Making; Police Psychology; Police Selection; Police Training and Evaluation Further Readings Geller, W. ...

others have been examined, but as yet, none of these new measures have achieved sufficient scientific basis for use in applicati ...

The third weakness of the CKT concerns counter- measures—that is, things that a deceptive person might do in an effort to defeat ...

with the truth to the relevant questions. Thus, differen- tial reactivity is expected from the innocent and the guilty. Guilty s ...

laboratory settings. As with the CKT, we do not know how successful countermeasure attempts are against the CQT in the field. AA ...

decision process. There may be other factors that influence the extent to which popout is reported retro- spectively, such as th ...

proved a boon to the industry. The total market for adult material in the United States is now estimated to be $13 billion a yea ...

husbands’ use of sexually explicit material and that this may threaten the stability of their marriage. The survey data by the A ...

portrayals. These studies have generally taken the fol- lowing form: Male subjects were either exposed to depictions of mutually ...

over into subjects’ judgments of female victims in other contexts. Men who were exposed to large doses of filmed violence agains ...

of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology). The basic elements of specialty training in professional psycholog ...