Handbook of Police Psychology
by Jack Kitaeff
2nd Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781138917057 |
| eText ISBN | 9780429559136 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2019 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 666 |
Handbook of Police Psychology, 2nd Edition, is a reference handbook that surveys foundational practices, legal considerations, and operational methods in law enforcement psychology.
Featuring contributions from over 30 experts, the work addresses essential responsibilities such as pre-employment screening, fitness-for-duty evaluations, and clinical interventions for personnel. It also examines field challenges, including hostage negotiations and responses to critical incident reactions.
The 2019 edition added material covering officer resilience training, deadly force encounters, and police leadership enhancement alongside chapters first published in 2011. The volume serves as a professional resource for police psychologists, policy writers, legal advisors, and graduate students in police or forensic psychology.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction and History of Police Psychology
Chapter 2: Police Psychological Consultation Services to Public Safety
Chapter 3: Legal Issues Related to Hiring and Promotion of Police Officers
Chapter 4: Ethical Issues in Police Psychology
Chapter 5: Police vs. Probation/Surveillance Officers: Similarities and Differences
Chapter 6: Criterion-Related Psychological Evaluations
Chapter 7: Actuarial vs. Clinical Judgment Prediction Models in Pre-employment Psychological Screening of Police Candidates
Chapter 8: Appraising and Managing Police Officer Performance
Chapter 9: Assessments for Selection and Promotion of Police Officers
Chapter 10: The Integration Section of Forensic Psychological Reports in Law Enforcement: Culturally Responsive Ending Words
Chapter 11: Challenging the Police De-selection Process
Chapter 12: Couples Counseling/Assessment and Use of the Inwald Relationship Surveys
Chapter 13: Fitness-For-Duty Evaluations
Chapter 14: Methods for Real-Time Assessment of Operational Stress During Realistic Police Tactical Training
Chapter 15: Evolution of Police Leadership Enhancement
Chapter 16: When Cops Kill: Understanding the Psychology of Deadly Force Encounters
Chapter 17: Police Use of Force
Chapter 18: Hostage Negotiations
Chapter 19: Domestic Violence: An Analysis of the Crime and Punishment of Intimate Partner Abuse
Chapter 20: Police Interviews with Suspects: International Perspectives
Chapter 21: Applying Restorative Justice Principles in Law Enforcement
Chapter 22: Police Personality: Theoretical Issues and Research
Chapter 23: Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma and Grief: An Eco-ethological Existential Analysis
Chapter 24: Suicide in Law Enforcement
Chapter 25: Cops in Trouble: Psychological Strategies for Helping Officers Under Investigation, Criminal Prosecution, or Civil Litigation
Chapter 26: Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions to Promote Officer Resiliency
Chapter 27: Critical Incident Reactions and Early Interventions
Chapter 28: Critical Knowledge for Clinicians Debriefing Critical Incidents in Law Enforcement
Chapter 29: The Disconnected Values Model: A Brief Intervention of Improving Healthy Habits and Coping With Stress in Law Enforcement
Chapter 30: Mentally Ill—Crying "Help!" Police & Public Health Prevention, Intervention & Post-vention
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