Issues of combatting robberies by criminal police units

Police overestimation of criminal career homogeneity

Police presumptions about criminal career trajectories have been little studied. The exploratory study reported here involved 42 police staff of varying rank and experience. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which asked them to predict the type of offence that an individual was most likely to commit next from a given range of different offending scenarios. The findings suggest...

Police Issues and Concerns:

The questions below and the accompanying answers are provided as a guide to assist NPCs and others when dealing with issues that may be raised by police and other people regarding harm reduction approaches. These are frequently asked questions that are generic and not country or culturally specific, they can be applied just about anywhere. The answers should not necessarily be seen as ‘conclusi...

Police Interviewing of Criminal Suspects: a Historical Perspective

This paper provides an historical overview of the development of police suspect interviewing. The paper highlights how different approaches developed based upon the prevailing needs of the time, from early approaches involving torture and threats, simple question and answer approaches, through to methods incorporating knowledge from the behavioural sciences such as persuasive interviewing. The ...

Professional Issues in Criminal Justice

Most of the existing literature on correctional officer job satisfaction examines factors such as leadership, job environment, stress, and the enduring struggle between the keepers and the kept. This study examined the perceived effect of ―care‖ from coworkers on the work of correctional officers. Care is defined as the expression of interest by one or others in another’s life outside of the sc...

Combatting AIDS's Acoustic Shadow: Illinois Addresses the Problems of Criminal Transfer of HIV