Some job tasks do not lend themselves to formal on-the-job assessment because they do not occur with sufficient regularity to permit the standardized measurement required in validational research. The preparation of incident reports by police and security officers is such a job task. The production of accurate, literate incident reports is important because these reports are often required in l...

BACKGROUND There is a growing body of evidence that links employee well-being to organizational performance. Although police forces are under increasing pressure to improve efficiency and productivity, the evaluation of well-being in law enforcement is mostly restricted to self-report stress questionnaires that are based on questionable construction methodologies. No instrument to specifically ...

OBJECTIVE To explore female and transvestite sex workers' perceptions of risk in the sex work environment in Serbia. DESIGN Qualitative interview study. SETTING Street based locations for sex work in Belgrade and Pancevo, Serbia. PARTICIPANTS 31 female and transvestite sex workers. RESULTS Violence, including police violence, was reported as a primary concern in relation to risk. Violen...

This paper applies propensity score methods in order to investigate whether British female workers’ higher level of job satisfaction simply re‡ects a correlation due to the presence of systematic di¤erences in personal and job characteristics by gender or to a sample selection problem. The conclusion is that it does not, since it is found that there is a signi...cant positive e¤ect of being fem...

The objective of this study was to measure the efficacy of protection orders (POs) in reducing assault and injury-related outcomes using a matched comparison group and tracking outcomes over time. This study was a retrospective review of police, emergency department, family court, and prosecutor administrative records for a cohort of police-involved female IPV victims; all events over a 4-year ...

The European Stroke Organisation held its first European Stroke Science Workshop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (December 15–17, 2011). Stroke experts based in Europe were invited to present and discuss their current research. The scope of the workshop was to review the most recent findings of selected topics in stroke, to exchange ideas, to stimulate new research, and to enhance collaborat...

This study utilized a small sample of police recruits to determine whether use of the EYEPORTTM vision training system improves their visual performance during job training. Nine visually normal recruits underwent EYEPORTTM training for a three-week period during which they completed various eye exercises. Visual attention span for objects, speed and span of perception, and marksmanship were as...