A Contemporary Snapshot of Policewomen Attitudes

Carlan, Philip E.; McMullan, Elizabeth C.

doi:10.1080/08974450802586968

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“…Those findings were contradicted in this study, with women participants slightly less likely than their male counterparts to seek psychological assistance for work related issues. Given the congruence between masculine characteristics and those of the "ideal" police officer, it is theorized that in a bid for acceptance in this male-dominated culture, some women officers may adopt hyper-masculine traits [25,50,51]. Carleton and colleagues [9,14] discuss this issue and propose that further research is needed to understand gender differences in help seeking among police personnel.…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors that Influence the Decision to Seek Help in a Police Population

Burns

Buchanan

2020

IJERPH

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Police officers face many competing pressures and demands. Exposure to potentially traumatic incidents and significant job-related stressors can place many at higher risk of developing physical and mental health problems. The police culture exerts a pronounced influence on officers, preventing some from asking for or receiving assistance. The stigma of being perceived as weak or incompetent, concerns about being labelled unfit for duty, and worry that accessing psychological support will impact future career advancement can affect the decision to seek help. The Enhanced Critical Incident Technique was utilized to investigate the following research question: What helps or hinders the decision to access psychological services in a police population? Qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 serving Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers in the lower mainland of British Columbia, Canada. The findings encompass five main themes: the importance of systemic factors, access to information and education, quality and influence of relationships, individual characteristics, and organizational processes that will increase the likelihood of accessing mental health services. The results contribute to the empirical literature by enhancing what is known about elements that influence an officers’ decision to seek psychological services, and factors that can enable officers to overcome barriers.

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Factors that Influence the Decision to Seek Help in a Police Population

Burns

Buchanan

2020

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“…Styles of policing have been shown to have nuanced effects on perceptions of legitimacy (Gau and Brunson ; Kochel ), and a considerable literature exists about police attitudes toward various methods and modes of enforcement (Brooks, Piquero, and Cronin ; Carlan and McMullen ; Petrocelli et al. ; Poteyeva and Sun ).…”

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“…Styles of policing have been shown to have nuanced effects on perceptions of legitimacy (Gau and Brunson 2010;Kochel 2012), and a considerable literature exists about police attitudes toward various methods and modes of enforcement (Brooks, Piquero, and Cronin 1993;Carlan and McMullen 2009;Petrocelli et al 2014;Poteyeva and Sun 2009). However, outside of the procedural justice literature, little attention has been given to whether, and how, policing strategies affect the development of offenders' legal consciousness.…”

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confidence: 99%

Everyone Knows the Game: Legal Consciousness in the Hawaiian Cockfight

Young¹

2014

Law Soc Rev

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Past legal consciousness research has revealed a great deal about what individuals think and do with regard to law, but less attention has been paid to the social processes that underpin these attitudes, beliefs, and actions. This article focuses particularly on a "second-order" layer of legal consciousness: people's perceptions about how others understand the law. Ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with cockfighters in rural Hawaii reveal how law enforcement practices not only affect cockfighting rituals, but are embedded within them. Police practices and informal rules work in concert to shape fighters' second-order beliefs. These beliefs have implications for participants' understanding of central concepts, including order, disorder, and illegality. Examining legal consciousness from a second-order perspective also underscores that notions of legitimacy are constantly created and recreated. Recognizing legitimacy's inherently relational nature helps us understand how experiences of law are synthesized into beliefs-for example, when an unusual police action directed toward a subgroup of fighters compromised the law's legitimacy for them. Foregrounding the relational nature of legal consciousness offers scholars a means to better understand and operationalize the dynamic nature of human relationships to law.

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“…verbal and interpersonal skills), to become better officers. One recent study even concluded that women were modulating the demands of police work more easily, revealing that their stress levels and professionalism attributes were indistinguishable from those of their male colleagues (Carlan & McMullan, 2009). Due to the rank structure and similar type of work, it could be argued that this same conclusion could also be made of female correctional officers.…”

Section: Gendermentioning

confidence: 96%