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6 Police Prac. & Res. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/gppr6 and id is 1 raw text is: Police Practice and Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 1-2 From the Editor-in-Chief Highlights of the Issue PPR's first issue of 2005 presents a series of articles based on empirical research which address several important issues for the police in this country and elsewhere in the world: police and farm crime, analysis of police group aggressiveness, multi-tasking behaviors of general duty police officers, job commitment of tertiary educated police officers, and negative impact of police occupational culture. In'The Policing of Farm Crime,'Joseph F. Donnermeyer and Elaine Barclay present the findings of a study on the response of rural police to property-related victimizations on farms in New South Wales, Australia. The findings highlight problems of policing in rural communities where farm and ranch communities 'cling to traditional values and a web of informal social relationships.' According to the authors, police response to an increasing number of calls for service related to farm crime will continue to be 'influenced by local traditions and established patterns of interaction among people living in rural communities.' John D. McCluskey, William Terrill, and Eugene A. Paoline, III are concerned with the issue of 'Peer Group Aggressiveness and the Use of Coercion in Police-Suspect Encounters.' They maintain that 'officer decision making is shaped, in some way, by peer group attitudes.' The authors are of the opinion that 'the way to affect change in a police organization is through small groups rather than more global organizational levels or at the individual micro level.' 'Multi-tasking Behaviors of General Duty Police Officers' by G. S. Anderson, A. Courtney, D. B. Plecas, and C. Chamberlin is an examination of 'the multi-tasking behaviors of general duty police officers' which drew public attention following a lawsuit against a municipal police department in British Columbia. The researchers indicate that'the ability to perform the bona fide occupational requirements of a police officer will require the individual to be able to effectively process information, and multi-task'which demands that'adequate time and attention must be paid to the train- ing of the individual tasks prior to performing them in combination.' In 'Tertiary Education, Commitment, and Turnover in Police Work,' David Jones, Liz Jones, and Tim Prenzler discuss the results of a case study of Queensland police officers which 'showed no significant differences in turnover rates for degree holders and non-degree holders.' The authors conclude that 'there is no cause for alarm over police tertiary education and job commitment' although 'human resource managers will need to ISSN 1561-4263 print/ISSN 1477-271X online/05/010001-02 © 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd DOI: 10.1080/1561426052000343071

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