The Importance Of Job Burnout In Criminal Justice

There are many aspects to criminal justice that can be evaluated and potentially improved to enhance the functions of criminal justice. Specifically, law enforcement officers can potentially use some improvement to enhance their functions and reduce some negative impacts. Stress can come from many things such as academics, career professions, and more. However, in some cases, it can lead to job burnout. Job burnout is known as a form of stress that individuals can suffer from at different time in their life and in different ways. Job burnout simply means that “a person is very distressed and starts to feel fatigue and frustrated every day with no relief” (Terry, 1992). Individuals who experience job burnout cope in different ways, whether good or bad way. Therefore, as a researcher, the exploration of how requiring or enforcing the attendance of counseling every 6 months would impact the lives of police officers in the Houston Police Department is beneficial. …show more content…
fatigued and stressed) ahead of time. According to Kulbarsh, in a Badge of Life study, it was found that there were 51 deaths by suicide of law enforcement officers during the last the six months of 2015 (Kulbarsh, 2016). There was a study that was conducted by Basińska and Wiciak in 2012 regarding how being fatigued and burnt out can have detrimental effects on police officers. Some of the possible impact that a police officer who is going through job burnout is that they will have a hard time dealing with successful personal relationships, will make mistakes on court paperwork, will generate a higher rate of citizen complaints for reported misconduct, and they tend to be fatigued on duty (Basińska & Wiciak, 2012). These issues can hinder the police department’s