Violence, Police & Keeping Safe

Question 1

1. Police and first responders have…..

Answer 1

1. a challenging role in attending to people struggling with mental illness or other issues which potentially involve violence

Question 2

2. a. There is an extensive….
3. b. Violence is often described…

Answer 2

2. a. Body of research regarding the psychological causes of violence, however psychology as a discipline largely attributes violence to familial dysfunction or pathology
3. b. as a condition of human nature and as the consequence of a damaged psyche

Question 3

3. a. Whether this takes the form of drug use….
4. b. Some theories particularly those …

Answer 3

3. a. DV or is the result of mental illness, theories of why people harm are broad.
4. b. who have adopted a biopsychosocial framework, suggest that it is the interaction between biological, and psychosocial variables that provides the most comprehensive understanding of violence

Question 4

4. a. Cognitive theory has considerable attention from violence researchers …..
5. b. Research suggests that….
6. First they….

Answer 4

4. a. and involves the study of information processing
5. b. When people make decisions, they engage in a series of complex thought processes -
6. first they encode then they interpret information or stimuli they are presented with and then they search for a proper response and finally they act on their decision

Question 5

6. a. According to information processing theorists
7. b. Violence-prone youth, for example

Answer 5

6. a. violent individuals may be using information incorrectly when they make their decisions.
7. b. may see people as more threatening than they actually are

Question 6

8. However regardless….

Answer 6

8. Police and first responders are required to attend unpredictable events In the course of Police work they are responsible for keeping themselves, community, perpetrator and victims safe

Question 7

8. However regardless….

Answer 7

8. Police and first responders are required to attend unpredictable events In the course of Police work they are responsible for keeping; themselves, community, the perpetrator (if they can) victims safe

Question 8

9. a. They do this via an integrated….
10. b. Attending violent scenes…

Answer 8

9.a. and multilevel approach.

Firstly by;

• Maintaining law and order
• Protecting those in need
• Education
• Prevention

9.b. can be dangerous and assessing risk only in moments can be the difference between life and death

Question 9

10.a. To reduce risk of harm Police…..

Answer 9

• have training to deal with danger
• they learn key strategies

Question 10

11.a. One strategy they use is POP….

Answer 10

Person

Object

Place

designed to improve cognitive functioningg when assessing risk under threat

fight or flight reduced cognitive capacity

Question 11

12. People also learn to manage vicarious trauma

Answer 11

Collegial support

EAProgram

Question 12

13. Finanlly police have a focus on prevention

Answer 12

Prevention

Helping victims and perpetrators and the general public with referrals

Forn example DV MCC program

Overall police are faced witha difficult task and they have a multilevel approach using prevention, education, maintaining law and order, protection