Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of Police and Security Services:
Contemporary Issues in Canadian Policing.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... BOOK REVIEWED Nancoo, S.E. (2004). Contemporary Issues in Canadian Policing. Mississauga, Ontario: Canadian Educators' Press. Change," according to John F. Kennedy, is "the law of life." Canadian policing, like all elements of society, has experienced change during ...
The effect of marital adjustment on the association between police officers' traumatic distress and trauma disclosure.(work and family)
Mar 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of relationship adjustment on the association between police distress and police trauma disclosure to partners. One hundred and three Victorian police officers and their intimate partners completed measures assessing trauma ...
The ability of police investigators to detect false confessions.(False Confessions)
Mar 22, 2006; ... ARTICLE REVIEWED: Kassin, S. M., Meissner, C. A., & Norwick, R. J. (2005). "I'd Know a False Confession if I Saw One": A Comparative Study of College Students and Police Investigators, Law and Human Behavior, 29(2), 211-227. When police investigators interrogate a ...
Forward Looking Infra-Red aerial cameras & policing: Regina v. Walter Tessling.
Mar 22, 2006; ... Early in 1999 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Ontario were involved in a drug investigation. They had received information from a "proven source" (i.e., one whose information in the past had led to charges being laid) to the effect that dealers had been buying drugs grown ...
Minority Police Applicants Concerns and Assessment of Occupational Roles.
Mar 22, 2006; ... ARTICLE REVIEWED: Perrott, S.B. (1999). Visible Minority Applicant Concerns and Assessment of Occupational Role in the Era of Community-based Policing. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 9, 339-353. According to Perrott (1999), recruiting minority ...
Crossing the thin blue line: a review of the prevalence, causes, and outcomes of police burnout.
Mar 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This review examines the incidence, causes, and outcomes of burnout in police officers. Relative to other professionals who interact with the public, police officers tend to have low levels of emotional exhaustion but high levels of depersonalization and diminished ...
Using image manipulation to construct fair lineups: the case of the buddy holly glasses.(constructing and administering)
Mar 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Constructing and administering lineups is a necessary and important part of police practice. Guidelines for outlining proper procedures have been put forth by the U. S. Department of Justice, and many police departments are making efforts to comply. However, practical ...
Developing effective community policing programs through a therapeutic jurisprudence model.
Mar 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This article suggests that there is a growing disconnect between the practice of community policing and the scientific examination and evaluation of the concept. Specifically, it is suggested that there is little empirical evidence available regarding the effectiveness ...
Assessing the relationship between age and personality variables on the psychological and physiological well-being of police officers.
Mar 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to assess the relationships between age and various personality variables (i.e., morningness, languidity, flexibility, neuroticism, and extroversion) on a variety of well-being scores, including: (1) physiological (i.e., chronic fatigue, ...
Special issue on building an understanding for peace.
Dec 01, 2005; ... Now what we have here is failure to communicate --Captain, in the film, Cool Hand Luke The heart of peacemaking will never change, the core principle is love the enemy and consequently one will not have an enemy. Of course one will have a conflict, but not an enemy ....
Choosing the new guard: a model for assessing replacement political personnel in transitional regimes.(Assessing Leadership Candidates)
Dec 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT A fundamental requirement for managed regime change is the identification of new leadership to fill public positions. Candidates need to be evaluated for suitability according to their attributes, but this is an inherently subjective process, and raises questions about ...
Policing Space: social control and the anti-corporate globalization movement.
Dec 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT This article examines the social control of dissent, focusing specifically on the policing of space in the Anti-corporate Globalization Movement. Drawing on insights from the social control, social movement, and protest policing literatures, this study examines the ...
Police training assistance: the right kind of help.(research of policy making)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Canada's experiences in supporting security sector reform and police development, particularly in Haiti, suggest some policy options and criteria for managing policy choices. This article considers the current constellation of police assistance efforts, the resources devoted to them, their ...
The politics of post-conflict policing.
Dec 01, 2005; ... This paper explores the political dimensions of policing in post-conflict societies, and makes the case that the reluctance to engage more fully in the politics of post-conflict security provision has been a serious impediment to the success of international police reform efforts in ...
Does tapping the diasporas for recruits provide an advantage in policing? The experience of the Canadian Trained Haitians (CTH).
Dec 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT This article argued that, although knowledge and skills may be somewhat easy to teach, and for students to learn, mere knowledge is less effective at changing attitudes. This would suggest that reform of policing through simple instruction might not be enough to effect ...
Assessing police attitudes toward mental illness.
Dec 01, 2005; ... ARTICLE REVIEWED: Cotton, D. (2004). The attitudes of Canadian police officers toward the mentally ill. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 27, 135-146. Increasingly in our society, citizens with mental illness are deinstitutionalized and placed in the care ...
Coverpersons and operators in undercover work: the reappearance of false identities.
Dec 01, 2005; ... ARTICLE REVIEWED: Girodo, M., Deck, T. & Morrison, M. (2002). Dissociative-type identity disturbances in undercover agents: Socio-cognitive factors behind false-identity appearances and reenactments. Social Behavior and Personality, 30, 631-644. Many police officers ...
Post-offence conduct: investigative strategy.(Legal Decision: POST-OFFENCE CONDUCT)
Dec 01, 2005; ... A police investigation of a crime may explore three stages of an offender's conduct: pre-offence activity, the offence itself, and post-offence activity. The first stage includes the elements involved in planning the crime while the second stage represents the actus reus of the crime. When ...
Correction.(Correction Notice)
Dec 01, 2005 ... The publisher wishes to apologize for an error in the labelling of two figures from the article by Matthew Repp and John Allison that appeared in Volume 3 Issue 2 (pp ....