Open-ended interviews were conducted with members of the "Execution Team" in Louisiana in order to understand the roles, experiences, and effects of carrying out the death penalty. Fifty of a potential 52 correctional officers who work with executions were interviewed and asked to complete mental health inventories. While emphasizing the importance of security and their professional responsibil...

Demands on police officers in the past 30 years have grown dramatically with the increasing threats to social order and personal security. Selection of police officers has always been difficult, but now with the increasing demand and complexity of police work, along with the candidates applying from Generation X and even Generation Y, the selection process has become more critical. The personal...

The police reform launched in Ukraine 2015 was a very important and long-overdue step towards the transformation of both system Ministry Internal Affairs law enforcement country as whole. However, today, more than seven years after adoption Law “On National Police”, is still not fully completed, sharp criticism numerous problems shortcomings process often heard academic community among represen...

The present study assessed the organizational commitment of 189 correctional officers at four Maryland State prisons representing multiple security levels (pre-release, minimum, medium, and maximum) using the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) (Mowday, Steers, & Porter, 1979). Results indicated that officers with greater years of military service and those that chose corrections as a...

Despite the availability of powerful mechanisms for security policy and access control, real-world information security practitioners—both developers and security officers—still find themselves in need of something more. We believe that this is the case because available policy languages do not provide clear and intelligible ways to allow developers to communicate their knowledge and expectatio...

OBJECTIVE South Korean police officers have a greater workload compared to their counterparts in advanced countries. However, few studies have evaluated the occupational challenges that South Korean police officers face. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the police officer's job characteristics and risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among South Korean police officers. DESIGN ...

The main purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between Human Factors, Mechanical/Vehicle Factors, Environmental/Road Factors and Road Safety. Ten traffic agent officers (Comprising Road Safety Corps, Road Safety Marshal, State Security Service Officers, Police Traffic officers and National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) officers) were selected as a sample, survey questi...