From: Aeon
Why do police have such out-of-date psychological theories?
March 21, 2016
Aeon:
What do police officers need to know to effectively do their jobs? They must ask the right questions to piece together the crimes that occurred, and make sure they don’t take advantage of the vulnerable or put innocent people in jail.
But, do they actually know that they must know these things?
When my colleague Chloe Chaplin and I pondered these points at work, in the department of law and social sciences at London South Bank University, we presumed that police officers would understand the things they needed to know to get the job done. Yet no one had ever put them to the test, and as two psychologists, we thought we would.
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