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Ash, Daniel P 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7486-2127
(2022)
How operational resourcing decisions and workload affect the behavioral motivations of police officers engaged in domestic abuse incident work.
In: Policing and Society Conference - Police Understaffing, 5th & 6th October 2022, The University of Akureyri (Iceland).
(Unpublished)
Abstract
This paper argues that the main driver of police officer behavior, which affects policy compliance during domestic abuse police work, is not a lack of knowledge or skill among officers. Most officers know what they should be doing, but at the point of performance they often chose to manage incidents in ways that are outside of policy or professional expectations. By considering a social-psychological explanation of the behavioral motivations of officers - underpinned by an empirical study that examined how police officers behaved when working at domestic abuse incidents – It is claimed that a social identity mechanism is at work, through which officer interactions can be understood as a continuum of behaviors. Officers balance social identity value with their embodied perceptions of the physical and psychological effort that is needed to resolve an incident. Understanding this mechanism provides insights into how resourcing decisions and officer workloads can impact on behavioral outcomes - affecting policy compliance.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology. > HV6001 Criminology |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences |
| Research Priority Areas: | Society and Learning |
| Depositing User: | Daniel Ash |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2022 10:53 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 08:24 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/11249 |
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