Psychological research on the police: An introduction to a special section on the psychology of law enforcement.

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Nietzel ◽  
Cynthia M. Hartung
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Psychological Research

Introduction to the special section on Increasing Replicability, Transparency, and Openness in Clinical Psychology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L Tackett ◽  
Josh Miller
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Existing Problems

As psychological research comes under increasing fire for the crisis of replicability, attention has turned to methods and practices that facilitate (or hinder) a more replicable and veridical body of empirical evidence. These trends have focused on “open science” initiatives, including an emphasis on replication, transparency, and data sharing. Despite this broader movement in psychology, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists have been largely absent from the broader conversation on documenting the extent of existing problems as well as generating solutions to problematic methods and practices in our area (Tackett et al., 2017). The goal of the current special section was to bring together psychopathology researchers to explore these and related areas as they pertain to the types of research conducted in clinical psychology and allied disciplines.

scholarly journals Broadening the Lens of Stereotype and Bias: Perspectives From Charm City

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally D. Farley ◽  
Rebecca J. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
Underlying Processes ◽  
Insight Into

In the focal article, Ruggs et al. (2016) outline the ways in which psychological theory and research can provide insight into the potential underlying processes behind recent conflict between law enforcement officials and the community. These incidents have led to national questions regarding the training and standard operating procedure of police, as well as society's beliefs about the prevalence of stereotyping. The authors identify how psychological research, and social psychological and industrial–organizational research in particular, can play a role in shaping these issues for organizational practices moving forward.

Features of the socio-psychological climate in service collectives of law enforcement bodies

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Алексей Лункин ◽  
Aleksey Lunkin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The State ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Psychological Climate ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Psychological Study

The article analyzes and evaluates the results of a comprehensive socio - psychological study in order to identify psychological information that is relevant to the management of the service team. Results of socio - psychological research are considered solely for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of operational and official activities and optimizing moral and psychological support. Discussion of the conducted empirical research allowed to assess the state of the socio-psychological climate in the team, the moral and psychological state of personnel, identify factors that adversely affect the results of operational and service activities and socio-psychological processes, the specifics of interpersonal relations in the team, as well as the opinion of personnel on leaders.

scholarly journals Psychological Analysis of Informational Materials: Establishing a New Type of Forensic Psychological Evaluation and a New Forensic Science Specialty

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Т. N. Sekerazh
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Forensic Science ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Forensic Institutions ◽  
New Type ◽  
State Organizations ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Psychological Expertise

The need for the imposition of the new expert specialty stems from the law enforcement agencies’ demand for psychological research of informational materials in cases involving extremism and terrorism display, indecent assaults on the Internet, corruption offences, inducement and instigation of suicide, propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors, propaganda of Nazi symbols and emblems and many others. Formation particularities of the new type of forensic psychological expertise and the new expert specialty ‘Psychological research of informational materials’ in the Russian Ministry of Justice forensic institutions are contemplated. The defnitions of subject and objects of this type of expertise as well as of the term ‘informational material’ are given. In the context of experts’ further vocational retraining problem it is underscored that during the public forensic experts’ preparation for the Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Russian Federation Ministry of Justice system an innovative author’s further vocational training programme in expert specialty ‘Psychological research of informational materials’ is used. Meanwhile some non-State organizations, the so-called non-proft organizations, providing educational and certifcation services in the forensic feld apply the same specialty description furnishing non-original content. As a result, the members of law enforcement agencies and judges appointing an expertise form a misconception about the qualifcation of the experts having such certifcates. The unifcation of experts’ training programmes for state and non-state organizations can change the situation and improve the quality of services in forensic psychology as well as the implementation of mandatory experts’ certifcation, training programmes and materials licensing and the governmental control of the certifying organizations.

Black Men’s Experience of Police Harassment: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-117
Author(s):  
Ania Townsell ◽  
Eric B. Vogel ◽  
Alvin McLean
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Police Harassment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Men's Experience

Abstract The Black community has a long, well-documented history of being disproportionately harassed by law enforcement. While psychological research has studied this phenomenon, more in-depth research on Black men’s lived-experience of police harassment is needed. This qualitative study used descriptive phenomenology to investigate Black men’s experience of being harassed by law enforcement officers. An analysis of non-structured interviews with a sample of four participants revealed several essential aspects of this experience, including: anxiety in response to the initial awareness of law enforcement’s presence, fear and confusion in response to abrupt escalation of aggression and hostility by officers, a sense of humiliation in response to degrading police tactics, anger over inability to pursue redress through the justice system, ongoing negative emotion, and a sense of having been psychologically harmed by the harassment. The implications of the findings are discussed.

Crisis and Redemption: The History of American Police Reform since World War II

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 951-960
Author(s):  
Christopher Lowen Agee
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Police ◽  
National Trends ◽  
Urban Police

This introduction to the special section on police and cities surveys the repeated rounds of exposure, disruption, and redemption urban American police departments have undergone since World War II. Rather than telling the history of modern law enforcement as a story of uninterrupted growth, this article emphasizes the crises in police legitimacy that punctuated the postwar period. New citizenship models, new social practices, and new understandings of democratic governance repeatedly forced urban police to re-authorize their power. Moreover, these challenges to police legitimacy sparked and steered much of the postwar expansion of police power. As a result of these past crises, modern police now root their authority in a racialized harm principle and in the seemingly contradictory ideologies of police professionalization and community partnership. This introduction concludes with a discussion of the special section’s essays, highlighting how each contributor uses the police to expand our understanding of urban governance. Collectively, the essays explore the vast range of urban actors—including community activists, academics, black mayors, liberal police chiefs, and rank-and-file officers—who attempted to use disruptions in police authority to reshape postwar law enforcement. The essays also consider different types of cities—including deindustrializing metropolises, small cities, and cities in America’s territories—to help us more accurately identify national trends. Together, the essays in this special section make clear the central role urban police have played in the histories of American citizenship and democracy.

Using Specialized Knowledge in Assessing the Reliability of Testimony in Criminal Proceedings: a Retrospective, Doctrinal and Practical Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-196
Author(s):  
E. V. Noskova ◽  
◽  
J. A. Putintseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Judicial Proceedings ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

Introduction. The history of the formation and development of forensic examination as an independent type of criminal procedural activity is long and very ambiguous. The patterns of its occurrence and stages of development predetermine the importance of expertology for modern law enforcement practice. The emergence and active use of new branches of scientific knowledge determine their introduction and influence on criminal proceedings, which is clearly demonstrated by the example of psychology. Theoretical Basis. Methods. The theoretical basis of the work is the scientific developments of domestic and foreign researchers devoted to the study of the possibilities and problems of using special psychological knowledge in assessing the reliability of testimony obtained in the course of pre-trial and judicial proceedings in a criminal case. Research methods – systemic, historical, logical, comparative and hermeneutic. Results. Without psychological and pedagogical special knowledge, it is impossible to imagine modern proceedings in the vast majority of criminal cases involving minors. The article provides a retrospective analysis of the application of non-legal knowledge to reveal lies in the testimony of witnesses, systematizes the experience of modern Russian law enforcement investigative and judicial practice, examines the arguments given in scientific sources and court decisions on the use of special psychological knowledge to substantiate and assess the reliability of the testimony of participants in criminal proceedings.The work examines the current capabilities of psychology and their potential for proving in the course of criminal proceedings, cites the positions of scientists who previously studied the studied complex of material and procedural problems. Discussion and Conclusion. On the basis of the available empirical experience, the author’s conclusion is formulated about the advisability of practical use in the process of proving psychological research of a teacher-psychologist aimed at identifying psychological signs of the reliability and/or unreliability of information reported by participants in criminal proceedings, especially in the process of forming a sequence and in the course of proving, formulating investigative versions, as well as in order to substantiate the conclusions of the investigator and the court with the testimony of an expert, a specialist who conducted the corresponding study. In connection with the identified problems, the necessity of preparing explanations at the departmental level of the significance and procedure for using special psychological knowledge in criminal proceedings is substantiated.

scholarly journals How Subtle Bias Infects the Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-245
Author(s):  
Isabel Bilotta ◽  
Abby Corrington ◽  
Saaid A. Mendoza ◽  
Ivy Watson ◽  
Eden King
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Legal Decision ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Legal Decision Making ◽  
Critical Problems

This review describes the ways in which contemporary forms of prejudice and stereotypes, which are often subtle and unconscious, give rise to critical problems throughout the legal system. This summary highlights dominant themes and understudied issues at the intersection of legal and psychological research. Three areas of focus are considered: law enforcement (policing), legal decision making, and the legal profession. Recommendations for future research and practice are offered.

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