This article seeks to examine the effect of social and psychological factors which affect on the sense of social security. The research design was descriptive and correlation method that applied to questionnaire for measuring all the youth from 20 to 30 years of age from Charmahal va Bakhtiari among 310 ones from different towns were selected by multi-age approach. Data were obtained by using c...

OBJECTIVES Law and order enforcement tasks may expose special force police officers to significant psychosocial risk factors. The aim of this work is to investigate the relationship between job stress and the presence of mental health symptoms while controlling sociodemographical, occupational and personality variables in special force police officers. METHOD At different time points, 292 of ...

Drawing on theories of representative bureaucracy theory, we examine whether increased representation of women in police forces in England leads to a higher rate of domestic violence arrests. To do so, we use panel regression techniques to analyze the links between gender representation and variations in the arrest of domestic abuse perpetrators, when controlling for a range of other relevant v...

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...

This study describes the learning potential of serious games and their success in a number of domains such as the military, healthcare, education, and emergency services. The work aims to highlight the training opportunities available for serious games in the police domain in general, and in the Dubai police force in particular, and the challenges facing the serious games domain. The success of...

Police represents an institution that regulates the social welfare where the officers assimilate the behavioral codes to perform their functions. One of the problems identified in the police officer's behaviors refers to aggressive expressions, probably linked with impulsive reactions. In this report, we show an exploratory study to elucidate the neurocognitive correlation of impulsivity in a M...

How police officers approach and try to reason with civilians and offenders can determine how certain situations are resolved. Due to monetary and time costs, training of such social skills is currently not available to all police officers. To assist in the training curriculum of the Dutch police, we are developing a serious game prototype in which police officers interact with virtual agents t...

Author(s): Clea Wright Whelan ; Graham Wagstaff ; Jacqueline M Wheatcroft Title: High stakes lies: Police and non-police accuracy in detecting deception Date: 2015. Appeared online 26 June 2014 Originally published in: Psychology, Crime and Law Example citation: Wright Whelan, C., Wagstaff, G., & Wheatcroft, J. M. (2015). High stakes lies: Police and non-police accuracy in detecting deception. ...