Police psychology

College students that follow Criminology as a career, learn about different types of crime and how public responds to crime. This field focuses more in the psychology and ideology of a criminal (Criminology 2010). Criminology always is trying to solve the question, why crime occurred and why people commit them? This is why Criminology prepares a student to understand criminal’s behavior. Criminologists are mainly concerned with identifying the suspected cause of crime. Even though some…

The study of psychology in law develops the roles in the criminal justice system. Psychologist who work in the criminal justice field may end up working in law enforcement, corrections or in the court system, each of these three fields incorporates different aspects of the legal system. The psychologist in criminal justice field studies the offenders, victims, law enforcement employees, juror expert witnesses, prison guards, judges and parole officers. The examination discoveries of a…

most stalkers do not suffer from a psychosis-related mental illness. This implies that most stalkers know perfectly well what they are doing and have made the conscious choice to stalk, since they do not have a psychotic illness that hinders their psychology and sense of…

figure out if any of the tactics the law enforcement agencies created and used actually worked to reduce gun violence in the youth culture. Throughout the article, a total of eight case studies were presented to show eight different cities’ efforts to police the gun crime happening within their city. The three different methods that were implemented by the law enforcements in the eight different cities include: the reciprocal control, the punitive legal control, and the “soft” legal control. The…

Teenagers typically go through the rebellious phase growing up. This tends to involve discovering who you are, use of drugs and alcohol, taking stupid risks, a knack for adventure and a desire for independence (Psychology Today). Kirstin Lobato fitted into that category. She grew up in Panaca, Nevada, a very small populated town of approximately 700 people. Most of the people in Panaca were strict Mormons, and that caused her to stand out, making it hard for her to fit in. At the age of 15,…

Criminal Profiling: More than Movie Magic Aspects like age, marital status, ethnicity, and identifying characteristics are what define a typical criminal profile and are crucial in catching serial criminals. Criminal Profiling has made a debut in the media with shows like Criminal Minds and novels like Sherlock Holmes, but the science behind profiling is often left to the imagination to create the idea of a profiler as a magical and all-knowing being, when in reality they are highly trained…

Progress Report #2 (INTRO) Two years, two officer involved shootings, two suspects dead, and a community upinarms, post Rodney King protests, claiming it was a racially motivated killing. This was the nightmare Officer Paul Smith, of the Madison Police Department, found himself in during the spring of 1994. Even though he had been cleared of all wrong doings for both of the shootings, the community he had sworn to protect was turning against him. Not long after, Officer Smith started showing…

the law. Enforcement and penalties are not keeping pace. “You can make something against the law, but if the odds of being pulled over are slim and the penalty is low, it won’t change people’s behavior,” says David Strayer, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Utah (p7, 2010). Without real enforcement of the law, all the other suggestions to fight distracted driving would be pointless. As mentioned earlier, enforcement of the law will be a daunting task, but I speaking to a…

The LPC Code of Ethics The Texas Law and the Practice of Psychology (TL,2014, pp.2-7) book, defines sexual exploitation as a pattern, practice, or scheme of behavior, which may include sexual contact, that can be taken as being for the purposes of sexual stimulation of someone else. This term does not include the reception of information about a client’s sexual past within standard accepted practice while treating a sexual or marital issue. The professional will take accountability for sexual…

Crime Victimization Survey reported that 38% reported their assault to the police. In a shocking rate, an experiment showed that college women have really low rate of reporting rape. Also women are more like to report rape to the college agencies rather than the police. Low reporting rape area major concern to campus administrators and safety officials because choosing not to report incidents of sexual victimization to the police, stops them from making arrest and able…