Authoritarianism is a set of beliefs and characteristics that include submissiveness to authorities, demands for obedience from subordinates, intolerance of minorities and other outgroups, and endorsement of the use of power and punishment to ensure conformity to conventional norms

Bioterrorism is a form of terrorism that uses biological "weapons" such as viruses and bacteria to harm or threaten others

The burnout effect is a syndrome that occurs in people who work with other people; symptoms include emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment

Community-based policing is a policy that increases direct police/citizen contacts within a neighborhood

A crisis intervention team is a program that was designed by the Memphis Police Department to increase officer and public safety while attempting to redirect those with mental illness from the judicial system to the mental health system

A fitness-for-duty evaluation is the psychological assessment of an employee conducted to determine whether that individual is mentally, emotionally or behavaiorly impaired to continue his or her workpalce duties. It is often used with those in dangerous occupations such as police work, firefighters and the military

Jail diversion programs are programs that are specifically designed to have the defendant avoid jail on the condition of completing some sort of alternative rehabilitation such as rehab or anger management

Learned helplessness is a condition in which people come to believe that they have no personal influence over what happens to them and consequently they passively endure aversive treatment rather than to try to control it

Predictive validity is one form of psychometric validity which involves the accuracy with which a measure can predict somethign it should theoretically be able to predict

Stockholm syndrome is feelings of dependency and emotional closeness that hostages sometimes develop toward their kidnappers in prolonged hostage situations

Structured interviews are interviews in which the wording, order abd content of the questions are standardized in order to improve the reliability of the information an interviewer obtains

Suicide by cop is a crisis situation in which a citizen precipitates his or her own death by behaving in such a fashion that a police officer is forced to use lethal force

Team policing is a policy of less centralized decision making within police organizations

Terrorism is the use of threat or violence to achieve certain organizational goals

Validity scales are the measures whose goal is to access whether the test taker is telling the truth

Zero tolerance is an approach to law enforcement in which the police attempt to arrest all lawbreakers even those who have committed what are traditionally viewed as petty or nuisance crimes

Policing is necessary in any society that wishes to maintain public order but a balance is typically decided between public safety and civil liberties/criminal rights

Situational assessments, psychological tests and clinical interviews are often conducted. Situational assessments, though, are rarely used due to their time-consuming and expensive procedure

Training of police officers typically involves things like criminal law, human relations training, self-defense and the use of firearms. Training usually lasts for 6 months and frequently includes crisis intervention training as well

Law enforcement only occupies about 10% of a police officer's time. Typically, they're doing things like maintaining order and providing social services

Three factors are seen as critical stressors: the "life in a fishbowl phenomenon", job-related stress and burnout

There is no specific police personality, but 2 clusters of personal traits are commonly seen in police officers: isolation, secrecy, defensiveness, suspiciousness, cyanicism and authoritarianism, status-demanding and aggressive

Some community groups have been critical of police for things like use of aggressive force, but department-initiated initiatives are trying to prevent this sort of outlook. Programs like community-based policing, team policing, command source restructuring and crisis intervention training had lead to some degree of success