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First Day at the Police Academy: Stress-Reaction-Training as a Screening-Out Technique

Berg, Bruce L.·1990·Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
DOI 10.1177/104398629000600206
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This article draws its data from a larger ethnographic study of police academies in Massachusetts. The full study includes seven months of intensive field observations in seven regional police academies. The current article offers an ethnographic narrative account designed to draw out the first day in police training. In particular, to describe stress-reaction-training (SRT) programs. Recently, following allegations of brutality and torture in a municipal police academy in Massachusetts, SRT came under scrutiny. This close inspection of SRT revealed that no previous empirical study has examined this strategy of training/screening. In addition to detailed descriptions of SRT, this article considers the relationship between SRT and desocialization/resocialization of police recruits. Finally, this article offers several policy implications evident from the analysis. Included among these implications are recommendations for formal curriculum development, a limitation on duration, careful monitoring of recruits during SRT, and validation of the approach.

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Authors
Berg, B. L.
Corresponding author
Berg, Bruce L.
Venue
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1990-05
Volume
6
Issue
2
Pages
89-105
ISSN
  • 1043-9862 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-5406
DOI
10.1177/104398629000600206
OpenAlex
W2021116016
Cited by
25
References
10
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 2
FWCI
0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
Keywords
police academy, desocialization, resocialization, police training, police academy curriculum

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