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Title

Policing critical incidents / edited by Laurence Alison and Jonathan Crego.

Publication

Cullompton, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Alison, Laurence J.
• Crego, Jonathan.

Description

xxxi, 256 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Aims to examine the qualities of leadership and decision making in the police service. Based on research using advanced methods for examining policing in complex critical incident environments, this book focuses principally on a series of police debriefs following live major critical incidents.

Subject

• Police psychology
• Law enforcement > Decision making
• Police administration
• Crisis management
• Leadership
• Leadership

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface William Griffiths -- Foreword John Grieve -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The journey -- 3 Electronic debriefs and simulations as descriptive methods for defining the critical incident landscape -- 4 The current state of police leadership research -- 5 Command, control and support in critical incidents -- 6 Leading co-operation and context in Hydra syndicates -- 7 Towards a taxonomy of police decision making in murder enquiries -- 8 Heuristics and biases in decision making -- 9 Emotions in policing: the emotional legacy of homicide investigations -- 10 Decision inertia: the impact of organisations on critical incident decision making -- 11 Conclusions -- Index.

ISBN

• 1843922797 (pbk.)
• 9781843922797 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008295340

OCLC

144225019

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library