The Policing Mind

Developing Trauma Resilience for a New Era

Jessica K. Miller

• Editorial: Policy Press
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781447361916
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Scienze sociali
• Categoría: Criminologia

How does it feel to be a police officer in the UK? What happens in the brains of officers, particularly in high-risk roles such as counter-terrorism and child sexual exploitation? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience, be it trauma exposure, burnout or simply the daily pressure of adapting to life on the front line. A compulsory read for anyone with an interest in policing, the book offers practical, easy-to-follow resilience techniques applicable to anyone in the wider emergency responder community. The book also offers policy and operational recommendations to equip police officers with skills to face crime in a post-COVID world.

Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Glossary
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 Why the need to be resilient? How it feels to be a police officer in the UK and why
• 2 Risks to resilience in operational policing:: from trauma to compassion fatigue
• 3 What might be happening in the brain? Introducing simple neuroscience for policing
• 4 Turning science into action: resilience practices for policing
• 5 What now? The big step change
• Epilogue:: ‘Veil’
• Notes
• Index