SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Identity Management, Sex And The Law, Shift Work
6 Oct 2016
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Lecture 9 (03/10/16) stress, anxiety and policing. Chronic gradually creeps up, lasts longer, can have severe affects on your health: policing involves both acute and chronic stress. Acute on a call, crime fighting, etc. Chronic dealing with bureaucratic nonsense, dealing with co-workers, office policies, etc: stress in a sociological context. Both acute and chronic (but especially chronic) vary by rank, location, gender, task etc. Violanti & aron: organizational vs. inherent stressors. Organizational stem from organizational/administrative process (office politics) Inherent stem from the act of police work. When asked to rank most stressful events: killing someone, fellow officer killed, physical attack, battered child, high speed chases, shift work. Interested in how the top few are clearly acute, while shift work" as an organizational chronic stressor ranks extremely highly as well. Stress levels vary by assignment: narcotics and sex crime officers suffer most acute and chronic stress.
