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The impact of therapy dogs on perceptions of police officers

open access: yesHuman-Animal Interactions
Background: Amid national conversations about police accountability and injustice, therapy dogs in police stations may offer an innovative way to improve police-community interactions. This study examined the impact of therapy dog presence on perceptions
M.C. Delzio, M. Clements, K.E. Rodriguez
doaj   +1 more source

How police officers juggle work, a life partner, and kids

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Police officers frequently encounter stressful social situations during their working days. Furthermore, previous research on policing and families show that police officers’ families are impacted in different ways when at least one member of the family ...
Elin Granholm Valmari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A police service in transformation: implications for women police officers [PDF]

open access: yesPolice Practice and Research, 2019
This paper presents an overview of current trends besetting the police service in England and Wales, including the reduction of resources through austerity pressures, changing patterns of crime such as rises in cyber-related offences, greater victim focus, the introduction of graduate entry and changes in political accountability through the newly ...
Jennifer Brown, Marisa Silvestri
openaire   +2 more sources

Understanding perceptions of citizen demeanour: using an experimental design to understand the impact of encounter and observer characteristics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Systematic social observations of police-citizen encounters have revealed that citizen demeanour is an important predictor of outcomes (e.g. arrests and searches).
Donovan, Kathleen M.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation in New South Wales: A Mixed‐Method Survey Exploring Workforce Capacities

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is an insidious form of child sexual abuse (CSA) that impacts Australia's most vulnerable children and young people. Reports of CSE abuses experienced by children and young people living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) have spurred urgent calls for improving responses to CSE in Australia.
Sarah Ciftci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Police officers' opinions about some effects of the use of body worn cameras [PDF]

open access: yesNBP: Nauka, bezbednost, policija
In the last ten years, many police organizations around the word have been approaching the implementation of cameras that can be placed on the body of a police officer.
Milidragović Dragan, Milić Nenad
doaj   +1 more source

European police recruits’ views on ideal personal characteristics of a police officer [PDF]

open access: yesPolicing and Society, 2019
As societies are becoming more heterogeneous and complex, the role of the police is becoming more demanding.
Miguel Inzunza, Christina Wikström
openaire   +2 more sources

Stop \u3cem\u3eTerry \u3c/em\u3e: Reasonable Suspicion, Race, and a Proposal to Limit \u3cem\u3eTerry\u3c/em\u3e Stops [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Terry doctrine, which grants a police officer the authority to stop and frisk based on his or her reasonable suspicion rather than probable cause, was created by the Supreme Court at a time when the nation con- fronted a particular moment of violent
Hutchins, Renée M.
core   +1 more source

Under the Shade of a Coolabah Tree: A Second Cache of Tulas From the Boulia District, Western Queensland

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the excavation of a cache of stone artefacts, buried on the bank of a waterhole or ‘billabong’ in central western Queensland. This is an extremely rare find, and yet it is the second such site to be reported within less than a 10 km radius.
Yinika L. Perston   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE CRIME OF RAPE IN THE LAW OF REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

open access: yesPravo, 2013
The main goal of this paper is to present the crime of rape as a basic criminal act in a group of sexual offences. Despite the fact that this crime is set low in the statistics of total number of criminal offences, a high dark number, grave consequences ...
Mirjana Ristić
doaj  

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