Criminal Psychology

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Criminal Psychology

• Chapter 3
• Psychology Law Enforcement
• Selection, Training, and Evaluation
• Talbot
• Kellogg Community College

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Who is the Client?

• The Police Department
• The Public
• Police corruption

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Police Corruption

• Gratuities
• Playing Favorites
• Minor Bribes
• Being Above the law
• Role Malfeasance

• Major Bribes
• Property Crimes
• Criminal Enterprise
• Denying Civil Rights
• Violent Crimes

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Police Corruption

• Rodney King - 1991
• Officer Laurence Powell, Sergeant Stacey Koon,
  Timothy Wind and Theodore Briseno.

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Police Corruption

• Rodney King - 1991
• Detroit Police Dept
• Once a bastion of disorganization, the Detroit
  police evidence room has been transformed from a
  joke to a secure storage outfit that executives
  are starting to boast about.
• The evidence room on the first floor of Detroit
  Police Headquarters became the focus of attention
  last year when nine people -- including an
  employee -- were indicted on charges of stealing
  223 pounds of cocaine from inside. The department
  had also announced that as much as 5 million in
  cash was improperly inventoried and could be
  missing.

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Police Corruption

• Rodney King - 1991
• Detroit Police Dept
• Once a bastion of disorganization, the Detroit
  police evidence room has been transformed from a
  joke to a secure storage outfit that executives
  are starting to boast about.
• The evidence room on the first floor of Detroit
  Police Headquarters became the focus of attention
  last year when nine people -- including an
  employee -- were indicted on charges of stealing
  223 pounds of cocaine from inside. The department
  had also announced that as much as 5 million in
  cash was improperly inventoried and could be
  missing.
• Boston Police Department-Roberto Pulido, 41, of
  Hyde Park, and two other officers, Carlos
  Pizarro, 36, and Nelson Carrasquillo, 35, both of
  Dorchester, were arrested July 20 in Miami on a
  charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to
  distribute 100 kilograms of cocaine.
• http//www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/art
  icles/2006/08/18/pulido_audio

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• Transcript of Boston police Officer Roberto
  Pulido discussing threats
• August 18, 2006
• This transcript was filed in federal court today
  during a hearing to determine whether Boston
  police Officers Roberto Pulido and Carlos Pizarro
  should be held without bail until their trial.
  The two officers are charged with protecting
  shiploads of cocaine.
• Date May 24, 2006 Time Approximately 748 P.M.
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
• Participants FBI Undercover Employees ("UCE-1)
  FBI Undercover Employees ("UCI-2") FBI Undercover
  Employees ("UCE-3") Robert E. Pulido ("Pulido")
  Cooperating witness (CW)
• (Conversation Deleted)
• UCE-1 With you and him, but you do the talking,
  all right, you tell him, hey, introduce me as
  Geraldo, Jerry, whatever you want, I just want to
  make sure they're cool, I'm gonna say 'hey, how
  you doing, nice to meet you' whatever but as far
  as you need to tell them 'hey this is a big man's
  game' I need to know that they know what's going
  on, because we can't, we cannot have people, but
  I need, you know, they are going to take it
  better from you than me, is what I am saying.

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• Pulido Right, right, right
• UCE-1 And you know, you, you
• Pulido They way I've, I've already explained it
  (laughing) I think they are going to take it more
  from you because i've already explained it to
  them in a way that they understand what they have
  to lose, and that was the issue with the third
  badge I told, I told you about. The way I'm
  presenting this is that yeah you're my family,
  but as family does, family sticks to their own.
  And if something goes bad, and they're at fault
  somebody is going to pay, either with their life,
  or their children's lives, and as soon as they
  hear that, they're like, okay, they back off. The
  only ones that step forward are the ones that I
  trust.
• UCE-1 All right, all right.
• Pulido These two stepped forward, the other one
  was like 'oh wait minute, my children' that was
  all I needed to hear.
• UCE-1 Okay, all right.
• Pulido If you don't want to put up your
  children, then you have to go.

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• UCE-1 You know what, tomorrow when we meet them,
  we'll meet them individually, you, me, Manny,
  bring them here, you're the man, you're in charge
  of them, okay, you get them, you take care of
  them, you're in charge of them, we trust you with
  that, sit'em down, say 'listen guys, hey you
  know, this is business, business is business.
• Pulido Uh huh.
• UCE-1 There's a lot of money involved, the deal
  is what it is. Something goes wrong, somebody
  messed up you know.

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Who is the Client?

• The Public
• Police corruption
• Police selection
• Interviews
• False positives (poor risks who get hired) v.
  false negatives (those not hired but who would
  have exhibited appropriate skills).
• A result of the interviewees desire to portray
  themselves in a good light.

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Police Selection

• Psychological Tests
• MMPI 2
• 3 Validity Scales (LFK)
• Situational Tests
• Create one.

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Police Training

• The role of the police psychologist
• Consultant/ Teacher
• Curriculum Review and Development
• Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations
• Specialized training

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Specialized Training

• Wellness Training
• Improving mental and physical wellness through
  the promotion of healthy behaviors and the
  prevention of behavioral risk factors.
• Marital problems
• Alcohol/ Drug/ Smoking behaviors
• Recreational activities
• Surviving Critical Incidents
• Stress Management - Handout
• Burnout A job-related condition of mental,
  physical and emotional exhaustion.
• Interviewing the Mentally Ill Individual
• Response to Domestic Violence

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Specialized Training (cont.)

• Hostage Negotiations
• Who does it (Primary Negotiator)?
• Why?
• Police Psychologists Role?
• Training Prior to the HT
• Consult during the HT negotiations
• Who takes hostages?
• Political activists
• Terrorist
• Criminal/ Prisoner
• Mentally Disturbed

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Specialized Training (cont)

• Why take hostages?
• To demonstrate to the public a government or
  organizations inability to protect.
• Ensure increased publicity
• Create civil disconnect
• To access power (i.e. demand the release of
  comrades)
• Other Information
• Stockholm Syndrome
• The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg
  robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg,
  Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held
  bank employees hostage from August 23 to August
  28 in 1973. In this case, the victims became
  emotionally attached to their victimizers, and
  even defended their captors after they were freed
  from their six-day ordeal. The term "Stockholm
  Syndrome" was coined by the criminologist and
  psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the
  police during the robbery, and referred to the
  syndrome in a news broadcast