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Police Selection and Training

The Role of Psychology

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. John C. Yuille

    1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series D: (ASID, volume 30)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Lecturers’ Chapters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Recruit Selection in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

      • Robert Loo, Colin Meredith
      Pages 3-20

    3. Critical Issues for the Police Psychologist in Training Police

      • Martin Reiser
      Pages 21-42

    4. The Development of Training, and the Need for in-Service Training

      • Karel J. Nijkerk
      Pages 43-55

    5. The Panacea of Training and Selection

      • Frans Denkers
      Pages 57-66

    6. Training Police for Social Work? — Experiences from a German Program

      • Gernot Steinhilper
      Pages 67-76

    7. The Contribution of Psychology to the Development of Police Training in Britain (with Particular Emphasis on Metropolitan London)

      • Leslie Poole
      Pages 77-96

    8. An Evaluation of Police Recruit Training in Human Awareness

      • Ray Bull
      Pages 97-122

    9. The Limits of Police Community Relations Training

      • Anthony J. P. Butler
      Pages 123-139

    10. The Public and the Police: Training Implications of the Demand for a New Model Police Officer

      • Donald G. Dutton
      Pages 141-157

    11. Officer-Involved Shootings: Effects, Suggested Procedures and Treatment

      • John G. Stratton
      Pages 159-174

    12. Police and the Mentally Disordered

      • John Monahan, Brian Monahan
      Pages 175-186

    13. Criminal Psychopaths

      • Robert D. Hare
      Pages 187-206

    14. The Inheritance of Human Deviance: Anti-genetic Bias and the Facts

      • Sarnoff A. Mednick
      Pages 207-223

    15. Meaningful Research in the Police Context

      • John C. Yuille
      Pages 225-243

  3. Delegates’ Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. Psychological Standards Research for California Law Enforcement Officers

      • George E. Hargrave
      Pages 247-249

    3. Assessment Strategy for Special Unit Assignments: An Alternative to Psychological Tests

      • Ellen M. Scrivner
      Pages 251-255

    4. Municipal Police Evaluation: Psychometric versus Behavioural Assessment

      • P. Serrano, L. Garcia-Sevilla, J. L. Perez, M. Pina, J. R. Ruiz
      Pages 257-265
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About this book

The New Police Officer During the past twenty years the tasks required of police officers have expanded and changed with dramatic rapidi ty. The tradi tional roles of the police had been those of law enforcement and the maintenance of public order. As a consequence police officers were typically large-bodied males, selected for their physical abilities and trained to accept orders and enforce the law. Over the past two decades, however, the industrialized nations have placed a variety of new demands on police officers. To traditional law enforcement and public order tasks have been added social work, mental health duties, and cORllluni ty relations work. For example, domestic disputes, violence between husbands and wives, lovers, relatives, etc. , have increased in frequency and severity (or at least there has been a dramatic increase in reporting the occurence of domestic violence). Our societies have no formal system to deal with domestic disputes and the responsibility to do so, in most countries, has fallen to the police. In fact, in some areas as many as 607. of calls for service to the police are related to domestic disputes (see the chapter in this text by Dutton). As a result the police officer has had to become a skilled social worker, able to intervene with sensi ti vi ty in domestic situations. Alternatively, in the case of West Germany, the officer has had to learn to work co-operatively with social workers (see the chapter by Steinhilper).

Reviews

`...useful international exchange of problems and solutions.'
Reference & Research Book News (1986)
`...this text is a welcome addition to all those concerned with police training and selection, as well as to academics and researchers in related disciplines.'
The British Journal of Psychiatry (1987)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    John C. Yuille

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Police Selection and Training

  • Book Subtitle: The Role of Psychology

  • Editors: John C. Yuille

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series D:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4434-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3369-9Published: 30 June 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8474-1Published: 06 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4434-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-123X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 376

  • Topics: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general

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