- To understand the relationship of police and Forensic Psychology
- To understand the Low IQ issue of police force
- To discuss the use of different psychological tests for screening in and screening out
- Relationship of police and Forensic Psychology
Whenever the distinctive phrase "police psychology" is used, it is usually by people like Bartol (1996;2004) and others (Chandler 1990) who are recognizing the pioneer Dr. Martin Reiser (Reiser 1972; 1982;
Raiser & Klyver 1987) as America's first police psychologist, and who was hired by the LAPD full-time in1968. Other psychologists may have worked with police before Raiser's time, but records of their contributions have been lost in history and/or they were most likely part-time consultants.
Policing is the central topic of forensic psychology because Forensic psychology is relevant to law and police works as a law enforcement department. Do not misinterpret that police and forensic psychology both deal with criminals that is why both fields are relevant but this bond becomes even stronger because of the stressful nature of police job, now let’s see how forensic psychologist can help police to perform better.
Stressful nature of job
There has been a lot of research on the negative effects of stress on people in general. Surely you know that police work is one of the top rated professions for job stress next to air traffic controllers and dentists.
Forensic Psychologists help the police men to come out of the stress and assist departments with optimal shift schedules, pre-employment screening tests, developing profiles of serial offenders, and training in how to deal with the mentally ill, and provision of counseling services. We will discuss in detail police stress and strategies to cope with stress in next lectures.
Police and Intelligence Quotients
To understand the IQ scoring first understand what is meant by different IQ scores.
Policing is the central topic of forensic psychology because Forensic psychology is relevant to law and police works as a law enforcement department. Do not misinterpret that police and forensic psychology both deal with criminals that is why both fields are relevant but this bond becomes even stronger because of the stressful nature of police job, now let’s see how forensic psychologist can help police to perform better.
Stressful nature of job
There has been a lot of research on the negative effects of stress on people in general. Surely you know that police work is one of the top rated professions for job stress next to air traffic controllers and dentists.
Forensic Psychologists help the police men to come out of the stress and assist departments with optimal shift schedules, pre-employment screening tests, developing profiles of serial offenders, and training in how to deal with the mentally ill, and provision of counseling services. We will discuss in detail police stress and strategies to cope with stress in next lectures.
Police and Intelligence Quotients
To understand the IQ scoring first understand what is meant by different IQ scores.
- IQ Description
- 120-129 Superior
- 110-119 High average
- 90-109 Average
- 80-89 Low average
- 70-79 Borderline
