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- Title
Police/Law Enforcement and Psychology.
- Authors
Ostrov, Eric
- Abstract
The number of areas of interface between psychology and law enforcement has grown sharply in the past few decades. At the same time the field of law enforcement-related psychology has acquired increased knowledge and sophistication based on extensive research and practical experience. Areas of interface between law enforcement and psychology include selection of police officer candidates; fitness-for-duty evaluations; prevention and treatment of stress-related disorders; hostage negotiation; psychological profiling of terrorists and mass murderers; and eyewitness testimony. Trends and developments in these areas are surveyed in this article.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAW enforcement; PSYCHOLOGY; PEACE officers; POLICE recruiting; HOSTAGE negotiations; PHYSICAL fitness; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; MASS murderers
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1986, Vol 4, Issue 4, p353
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370040402