Police Trauma
Subtitle: Psychological Aftermath of Civilian Combat
Contributors: John M. Violanti (Editor); Douglas Paton (Editor)
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780398069544
Subjects: Offenses And Offenders; Police Science; Social Science; True Crime / Espionage; Sociology; General; Criminology; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Police; Police psychology; United States; Violence against; Violent crimes
First sentence: The title of this book is drawn from the similarity between military combat and civilian police work that led Williams (1987) to describe police officers as being involved in peacetime combat: "for cops, the war never ends ... they are out there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to protect and serve, to fight the criminal ... our peacetime enemy.
Description: "Mental health and other professionals need to be made aware of the conditions and precipitants of trauma stress among the police. The goal of this book is to provide that important information. The book's perspective is based on the idea that trauma stress is a product of complex interaction of person, place, situation, support mechanisms, and interventions.

To effectively communicate this to the reader, new conceptual and methodological considerations, essays on special groups in policing, and innovative ideas on recovery and treatment of trauma are presented. Contributions in the book are from professionals who work with police officers, and in some cases those who are or have been police officers, to provide the reader with different perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.