The available research suggests that suicide rates for law enforcement personnel are lower than that of the general population. What may explain this difference?

What will be an ideal response?


Suicide rates for law enforcement personnel may be lower due to sophisticated screening procedures and rigorous evaluations at the time of hiring, increased use of stress awareness training, better police training, increased counseling opportunities, and the many services provided by police psychologists and other psychologists working closely with police agencies.

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a. courthouse dynamics. c. plea bargaining. b. the courtroom work group. d. resources and procedures.

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Which type of study attempts to account for errors in drawing a sample by measuring the same people on two or more occasions?

a. cohort study b. panel study c. trend study d. cross-sectional study

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Truth-in-sentencing laws were created:

A. to let prisoners who exhibit good behavior during jail term get an early release. B. with the primary goal of providing the public with more accurate information about the actual amount of time an offender will spend behind bars. C. to allow judges and jury members to have more discretion in sentencing offenders. D. with the intention of dissuading offenders and witnesses under oath from giving false statements and penalizing them for presenting false evidence in court.

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What are the elements of 220 PC (Assault with intent to commit certain felonies)?

What will be an ideal response?

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