Research has demonstrated that policing is a stressful occupation and that this stress has a
negative impact on police officers' mental and physical health, performance, and interactions …

Objective: to study stress in the work of law enforcement agencies under the changing socio-
political environment. Methods: dialectic approach to the cognition of social phenomena …

Jamaican police officers often encounter organizational and societal stressors through their
work in high-crime and low-resource settings. Repeated exposure to stressors, with limited …

It is hypothesized that exposure to critical-incident trauma affects crime scene investigators.
Individual and organizational attribution factors are analyzed through the use of self-report …

PURPOSE: To examine differences between members of protective service occupations
(PSOs) and other occupational groups on indicators of alcohol use/abuse and mental …

The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing examines and critically retraces the field of policing
studies by posing and exploring a series of fundamental questions to do with the concept …

Police are exposed to considerable amounts of stress while undertaking their work;
confronting not only a plethora of stress factors common to the field of work, but also …

An old man stands, facing the corner in a specialized woman's police station in Salvador da
Bahia, northeast Brazil. He has been there for over two hours now, and below his ragged …

Recent surveys suggest that confidence in police reached its lowest level on record in the
wake of controversial police custody deaths and associated protests in recent years …

Fast and accurate decision-making are central in police officers' duties. The processing of
information relevant to inform decisions can be biased by the state of mind of officers …