Sumnaries Flashcards
What is community policing
Policing policy that focuses on general neighborhood problems as a source of crime; it’s preventative, proactive, and info-based
SARA 4-step model
Scanning- instead of broad law related concepts like robbery, officers group individual related incidents. I.e robbery maybe prostitution related
Analysis- officers collect info from community and private sources, not just police records, goal is to understand the scope, nature, cause of problem and come up with options for solution
Response- knowledge gained used to develop/implement solutions
Assessment- evaluate impact/effectiveness of responses. Were problems resolved?
Evidence based policing
Uses best available research to guide, manage, and evaluate police ops in community
Hot spot policing
Geographic approach to crime-fighting focused on analysis of places and times and deploying ofcs to that location that account for majority of calls for service/crime
Intelligence led policing
From 9/11, focuses on offenders not crime incidents, using intell analysis to prevent crime
Predictive policing
Proactive style that uses info and analytics to prevent crime using fewest police services
Perceptual, cognitive, and behavioral disturbances from deadly shooting
Sensory-Tunnel vision-typically suspect gun, blocking everything else out
Helplessness-during shooting exchange
Disturbances in memory-1/2 recall incident
What is the first stage in general adaptation syndrome(gas)
Alarm stage- fight or flight
Distress that often results from officers being exposed routinely to traumatic events over an extended period of time
Cumulative career stress
Used to assist police in objectively assessing the potential dangers to a victims of domestic violence
Domestic violence lethality assessment form
Programs made available by employers to help employees having personal or occupational difficulties
Employee assistance programs (EAPs)
The point in general adaption syndrome when resistance can no longer be maintained and body defense against stress break down
Exhaustion stage
The biological and physiological reactions caused by stress that may eventually incapacitate an individual
General adaptation syndrome (gas)
A psychological reaction that occurs after experiencing a highly stressful event outside the range of normal human experience
Posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
The second step in general adaptation syndrome exemplified by specific responses to continued stress by the body in order to optimize adaptation
Resistance stage
Anything that places an adjustive demand on the organism
Stress
Activities that help eliminate or reduce stress
Stress inoculation activities
The personality type characterized by an intense and ambitious mindset which puts the person under constant stress and physiological strain
Type A
The personality type characterized by a more easygoing state of mind than type A
Type B
Personality type characterized as non emotional non assertive quiet and introspective but actually frustrated and suppress anger
Type c
Personality type characterized as pessimistic and socially withdrawn and as a result fears rejection
Type D
Personality type similar to type A and can result in serious physical and psychological consequences
Workaholic personality
A set of symptoms and signs that occur in a fairly regular pattern from patient to patient, under a given set of circumstances.
Syndrome
Symptoms of ptsd
Anxiety, physiological arousal, irritability, avoidance and denial, intrusion, repetitive nightmares, impaired concentration and memory, sexual inhibition, withdrawn, impulsivity