The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypotheses that the thirteen independent or predictor variables selected from the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS), the F-Scale; Forms 40 and 45 (F-Scale), and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), would be significant discriminators between the criterion variables, which were matched-pair groups of law enforcement officers and convicted felons.A review of the relevant literature on available crime statistics in contemporary society, and on the selection, training, and education of police officers supported the need for this study. In addition, the research indicated that techniques for reliably evaluating characteristics that contribute to psychologically effective law enforcement officers were not extant.A total of fifty subjects participated in this study. Twenty-five law enforcement officers were matched in pairs with twenty-five convicted felons on the extraneous variables of age, race, sex, scholastic capacity, and socio-economic status. The law enforcement officers were agents of a state police organization, a county police department, four city police departments, and a university police department, located in the Midwest, whose official function was maintenance of law and order, peace-keeping, and enforcement of the regular criminal code. The convicted felons were inmates of a county jail in the same Midwestern state, who had been adjudicated through due process of the commission of a crime of such a serious nature that they had been sentenced to a year or more in a correctional institution. The total population in the study ranged between the ages of 21-2 and 49-1.Three instruments were used to measure personality needs and traits of the subjects in the two groups. They included 13 needs, factor-dimensions, scores, and traits selected from a possible 41 measured by the EPPS, the F-Scale, and the 16 PF. The administration, scoring, computer analyses, and interpretation was done between June 1, 1973, and July 4, 1974.Statistical treatment of the data consisted of the application of a stepwise multiple regression. A level of F ratio for entering and removing a variable from the equation was specified. At each step in the regression, the variable that made the treatest increment to R2 was entered, if it exceeded the prespecified F for entering a variable. The contribution of each variable was examined by entering it last in the equation until no variable had an F to enter larger than the prespecified F for entering, and no smaller than the prescribed F for removal. Additionally, a multi-variate stepwise discriminant analysis was run on the data. The results were congruent with those achieved by the stepwise multiple regression.The results indicated that predictor variables factor-dimension Q4 (Ergic Tension) of the 16 PF, the final score on the F-Scale (Authoritarianism) and the Change and Dominance variables of the EPPS were the best discriminators between the criterion variables. The measure of Ergic Tension was the strongest predictor variable, accounting for 41.76 percent of the variance. The measure 9.71 percent, the change variable accounted for 4.74 percent, and the of authoritarianism accounted for four predictor variables that were dominance variable accounted for 3.77 percent of the variance. The needs for aggression, exhibition, heterosexuality, amounts of ego strength, submissiveness, protension, shrewdness, guilt proneness, and strength of self sentiment, as measured by the EPPS and the 16 PF were not significant predictors and did not discriminate between the criterion variables in this study.An additional finding of the study was that given the raw scores of one hundred individuals on the significant discriminators between the law enforcement officers and the convicted felons, the examiner could correctly discriminate between the two in eight-four of one hundred cases.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 241-258). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 241-258). Also available on the Internet.

The purpose of this study was to examine what, if any, symptoms of a traumatic stress reaction were still being experienced by police officers, as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, who were geographically distant from the events of that day. Participants included 60 police officers at two southern California law enforcement agencies.

Depuis le début des années nonante, transparaît une volonté du Gouvernement de contrecarrer la montée de l’extrême droite répondant à un besoin de sécurité du citoyen pour tenter de résoudre le problème du chômage et ce, par la création de mesures à l’emploi comme le projet des « Assistants de Prévention et de Sécurité ».<p><p>Depuis le 1er janvier 2004, les Gardiens de la paix (ex-APS) sous statut ALE ne peuvent plus être engagés. Ceux embauchés sous ce statut peuvent cependant continuer à exercer leur fonction. Néanmoins, tout nouveau recrutement doit obligatoirement se faire sous le statut Activa. <p>Au mois de juin 2006, une nouvelle circulaire concernant les GP a bouleversé le paysage sécuritaire rendant possible la professionnalisation de certains d’entre eux sous certaines conditions (contrat 1ère emploi pour les moins de 26 ans suite à la loi sur le pacte des générations).<p><p>Progressivement, on constate une volonté de favoriser l’instauration d’un réel statut avec contrat de travail pour ces GP et d’amorcer un glissement des tâches par le biais d’un élargissement progressif du champ d’action.<p><p>Depuis janvier 2008, l’appellation « Gardiens de la Paix (GP) » remplace celle des APS et des personnes assimilées. Il persiste toujours un inconvénient d’une multiplicité de statuts mais il y a l’avantage d’une dénomination unique.<p><p>Les GP représentent quelques uns des acteurs de la mutation lente du concept de l’emploi classique et des transformations sociales en découlant. Le chômage connaît une évolution identique devenant de plus en plus contraignant et offrant dans le cas des GP la possibilité d’un statut précarisé à mi-chemin entre l’emploi et le désemploi. Cette fonction, caractérisée de « métier en creux », devient génératrice d’illusions pour son public cible et ce, parfois à son insu :illusion d’avoir retrouvé le plein emploi ,d’apporter une réponse aux problèmes de sécurité et de chômage pour l’ensemble de la population par ses décideurs et développement pour l'État d'un sentiment d'avoir trouvé une solution socialement acceptable.<p><p>A ce titre, les GP ne sont pas simplement les témoins de cette transformation sociale mais en sont également les acteurs. Ils occupent, dès lors, une place stratégique dans cette recomposition de l’emploi à connotation sécuritaire publique. <p> / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This project developed a course that could be used by any police agency under the training umbrella of the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.). Specifically, the project was developed to be used by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department and San Bernardino Valley College working with veteran police officers, police training officers, and police supervisors. The course included information from Josephson's Six Pillars of Character, Vicchio's Five Personality Types Lacking Integrity, and an ethical dilemma exercise.

This paper focused on many aspects of higher education, and how this complex topic is affeccting law enforcement today and will continue to affect it in the future. The role of police officers has changed over the preceding two hundred years from watchman to professional peacekeeper. Experts attribute this change to increases in societal awareness of crime, the implementation of civil service protection, and educational advances.