In the new article “Burnout as predictor of aggressivity among police officers” Cristina Queirós, Mariana Kaiseler and António Leitão da Silva investigate whether burnout is a predictor of aggressivity among police officers. The study deals with the relationship between burnout and aggressivity, using regression analysis to identify aggressivity predictors. Feelings of high depersonalisation and low personal accomplishment are the burnout dimensions that most strongly explain anger and aggressivity, whereas emotional exhaustion only explains 4% of verbal aggression. The study highlights the need to develop prevention strategies of stress, aiming to avoid the development of burnout as occupational chronic stress, and decreasing the risk of developing aggressivity among police officers. Source: Cristina Queirós, Mariana Kaiseler and António Leitão da Silva: Burnout as predictor of aggressivity among police officers, In: EuropEan Journal of policing StudiES, 1(2), Page 110-135, 2013.

In his new article “Corruption and trust in the police – A cross-country study” Gunnar Thomassen deals with International surveys about trust in the police and the effect of perceived corruption in the public sector. A regression analysis of 50 countries worldwide suggests that both perceived corruption in the public sector and trust in government are important predictors of trust in the police. Moreover, a correlation analysis suggests that perceived corruption in the public sector is more damaging to trust in the police than to trust in other government institutions.

Source: Thomassen, Gunnar: Corruption and trust in the police – A cross-country study, In: EuropEan Journal of policing StudiES, 1(2), Page 153-169, 2013.

CESDOP has published a comparative Study of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychiatrists in Criminal Justice in England, Spain, Rumania, Sweden and France. The investigation has brought to light enormous disparities in forensic psychiatrists’ status and in the “institutional” organisation of forensic psychiatric expertise. Source: http://www.cesdip.fr/IMG/pdf/PI_2014_05.pdf .

Relativ selten werden Zahlen über Selbstmorde und die (vermuteten) Ursachen veröffentlicht. In der PKS 2013 des Landes Bayern finden sich solche Zahlen in der bereit gestellten Excel-Tabelle 2013 ganz am Ende: https://www.polizei.bayern.de/kriminalitaet/statistik/index.html/649

Crime prevention in the design of an urban setting displays unambiguous links with behavioural geography, the urban setting and development of sustainable communities, being a strategy that has been extant for over 40 years. This article examines how such strategies have been able to develop (or not) within the design of our environments and undertakes ground breaking analysis of academic input jointly with the response of professional practice. The research exposes the risk to the sustainability and integrity of the crime prevention response by design to the human use of space. There is lack of a universally accepted framework and terminology set throughout. Source: Derek Johnson, Victoria Gibson and Megan McCabe: Designing in crime prevention, designing out ambiguity: Practice issues with the CPTED knowledge framework available to professionals in the field and its potentially ambiguous nature. In: Crime Prevention & Community Safety 16, 147-168.