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Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Theoretical Implementation of a Police Officer Suicide Prevention Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Since 1990, the Los Angeles Police Department has lost 52 of its valuable officers: 30 of these were killed in the line of duty, and a stunning 22 (42.31%) took their own lives. While the reasons why these officers ended their lives prematurely vary, the
Lokkesmoe, Abby
core   +1 more source

‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison   +5 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

Brief mindfulness training for Canadian public safety personnel well-being

open access: yesJournal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2022
The body of research demonstrating the psychological and physiological benefits of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) is robust and spans decades, yet its adaptation for a population at significantly higher-than-average risk of negative health ...
Renae M Stevenson
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

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

Some Aspects of legal Regulation of restricting the Rights and Freedoms of Police Officers

open access: yesBulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, 2021
The problem of restricting labor rights and freedoms, which is an important area of research for both domestic and foreign scholars, has been studied. International and national legislation on the establishment of restrictions on police officers while ...
S. M. Bortnyk
doaj   +1 more source

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