Police Psych M2 Flashcards
What is key concept of ethics?
The idea of risk management
Which up these make up the CLEAR model of problem solving?
Clinical Consideration, Ethical Considerations, Risk Managements, Legal considerations
Not one of the ethical has five broad, ethical principles, which is not one of them?
Risk Management
In police contexts dual relationships…
may become ASPIRATIONAL ETHICS rather than PERSCRIPTIVE
Rules about mandated reporting are examples of which kind of ethics?
Prescriptive ethics
difference between ethics
Aspirational ethics is going the extra mile to help someone.
Prescriptive ethics is following the rules to make sure you don’t do anything wrong.
What is epistemic trespass?
When a psychologist assumes that all police culture is the same and all police agencies operate the same.
While discussing pre-employment psychological evaluations for police officer we discussed a kind of validity that describes when a measure is obvious about its content and topic to a lay person. What is this kind of validity called?
face validity
While discussing pre-employment psychological evaluations for police officer we discussed a kind of validity that describes when a measure can determine an outcome in the future. What is this kind of validity called?
predictive validity
While discussing pre-employment psychological evaluations for police officer we discussed the idea that high profile stories often circulate on social media that are incorrect about police selection. In this context we discuss the case of Jordan vs. The City of New London. What was the core issue in the case?
Jordan applied for the police academy at the age of 47 years old. He was rejected. The police gave the reason that he scored too high on an IQ test, rather than because he was too old.
While discussing pre-employment psychological evaluations for police officer we discussed the idea we must develop an understanding for that police role. This process is called:
job analysis
What would Dr. Smith argue is the most important finding in this study?
25% of candidate reported problem drinking
This study looked at 143 officers that engaged in misconduct and 429 controls. Why so many controls?
In order to average out any error variables.
Which kind of traits predicted misconduct the best?
Negative traits
Which answer best describes what happened in this study?
The researchers work for an organization that performs preemployment evaluations. The consulted their archives and found 143 officers who had assessed that had been involved in misconduct. They compared them to a comparison group of people they had assessed but had not been found to have done misconduct. They looked for differences between them.
Which of these are criticisms of the study?
ome of the non-misconduct group may have committed misconduct but not been caught, so we might be measuring doing misconduct and being bad at it.
Some of the earlier officers used an earlier version of the assessment tool.
They only found a modest correlation between testing and outcome.
reading
This study examined how psychological assessments can predict serious misconduct in law enforcement officers. Researchers compared 143 officers with a history of misconduct to 429 officers without such issues, analyzing their results on two psychological evaluation tools: the Candidate and Officer Personnel Survey–Revised (COPS–R) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI).
Findings showed that specific scales on these assessments were linked to higher risks of misconduct, including substance use-related problems. The study suggests that these tools can help identify potential problematic behavior in officer candidates, improving the effectiveness of pre-hiring psychological screenings.
