Police-reported incidents of youth family violence have been increasing in frequency yet limited research exists about how best to risk assess this cohort. The present study examined the validity Victoria Police Screening Assessment for Family Violence Risk (VP-SAFvR) Australian aged 10 24 years ( n = 4,999) reported police using violence. 6-month base rate recidivism was 24.24% same-dyad and 3...

this study aims to evaluation of knowledge management processes including knowledge generation & acquisition, saving & organizing, dissemination & sharing and application in the public sector especially in police through a case study based investigation and identifies factors affecting for improvement them. the evaluation was examined through 423 questionnaires provided by in different police u...

This research study aims to identify the key stresses encountered by police officers in Lithuania in 2003. A questionnaire was distributed to officers working in police departments throughout Lithuania. The 2003 results were a compared with a similar study carried out among male and female police officers in Lithuania 1999. The stressors determined to have the greatest negative effects were adm...

François Triozon,* Stephan Roche, Angel Rubio, and Didier Mayou Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, DSM/DRFMC/SPSMS and DRT/LETI/DIHS/LMNO, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Departamento de Fı́sica de Materiales, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Apartado 1072, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain LEPES-CNRS, 25 rue des ...

This study explores two issues about police legitimacy. The first issue is the relative importance of police legitimacy in shaping public support of the police and policing activities, compared to the importance of instrumental judgments about (1) the risk that people will be caught and sanctioned for wrongdoing, (2) the performance of the police in fighting crime, and/or (3) the fairness of th...

Superintendent, Campbell Medical School and Hospital (Formerly Police Surgeon, Calcutta, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Medical College, Calcutta) During my tenure of office, for nearly 10 years, as police surgeon of Calcutta and professor of medical jurisprudence of both the medical colleges in Calcutta, no other subject presented so many difficulties and peculiarities as the determin...

Visual cues were identified and procedures were developed to enhance on-the-road detection of driving while intoxicated (DWI) by police patrol officers. Related research was reviewed; police officers with demonstrated effectiveness in DWI detection were interviewed; DWI arrest reports were analyzed; and a study was conducted to determine the frequency of occurrence and relative discriminability...

Police work is one of the most stressful occupations in the world due to their enormous stresses, uncertainty in work, lack of support from the superior, etc. They were suffering from different types of physical and mental disorders. But only a few studies were carried out in India. The present study was conducted to evaluate the cardiovascular status of police officers working in different pol...

Title: Undertaking a randomised controlled trial in the police setting: methodological and practical challenges Authors: Arabella Scantlebury ([email protected]) Catriona McDaid ([email protected]) Alison Booth ([email protected]) Caroline Fairhurst ([email protected]) Adwoa Parker ([email protected]) Rebecca Payne ([email protected]) Helen Reed (...

Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. The implication of this research for investment in a particular form of extra police services, those provided by private institutions, has not been rigorously examined. We capitalize on the discontinuity in police force size at the geographic boundary of a private university police department to estimate the effect of the extra police services on ...