SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Communication, Psychological Testing, Social Order
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Not always clear what is expected of. Application screening: procedure, happens before the inteeview stage, sent to a private organization to be screened, apprx. for the screening test: tests, psychological testing, physical testing, written test- written communication skills, cognitive test, analytical thinking capabilities, medical, preformed before you get to a certificate for hearing and sights. Interviews: if chosen, you enter an interview and before you take a polygraph test, polygraph, looking for people to tell the truth. Race, ethnicity and sex: numbers low, issues, within organization, discourages minorities women from applying, treat women badly (rookies) so that they would quit, skepticism, visible minorities, culture of distrust police, women, performance. Police basic training weeks: fully integrated approach, mixed training- mixed with university students. Isolated police are isolated from society, you take them out which can be a problem because it doesn(cid:495)t translate in the realy world: not appropriate approach because the police should not be trained as, paramilitary.
