Training Our Protectors
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  • Introduction
  • Stress Effects on Police
    • Papers: Stress Effects on Police
  • Understanding Violence
    • A Complex Matrix
    • Nature-Nurture Interactions>
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    • Child abuse and neglect>
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      • Papers: Corporal punishment effects
    • Effects of Trauma and Stress>
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    • Powder-keg formula>
      • Papers: Early Signs
    • The Violent Brain>
      • Brain Injury and Damage>
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      • Genes and temperament>
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      • Neurohormonal imbalances>
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    • Intimate violence and abuse>
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    • Substance Abuse>
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    • Psychopaths and APD>
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    • Parallels of collective violence and war zones>
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  • Abuse of Power
    • Authoritarians>
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    • Going backward: A trend toward authoritarianism>
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    • "Stand Your Ground">
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    • Prosecutor's Certainty>
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    • Innocents swept up in frenzy >
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    • He’s just "faking it” >
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    • Punitive approach>
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    • Police Brutality>
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      • Articles: Tasers and Pepper Spray
      • SWAT Overkill-Warrior Cops
      • Militarization
      • Stop and Frisk
      • Blog and News Posts: Police Abuse
    • Racial Profiling
    • A Global Crisis>
      • Global Reports
    • Locked up and restrained>
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      • News and blog posts
    • Torture>
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      • News and blog posts
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    • Human Rights Abuses>
      • Reports
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      • New Page
    • Governments Mistreating Citizens>
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    • Civil liberties>
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    • "War on Terror" Errors and Effects>
      • Torture Debates
      • Bush Cheney Policies
      • Overreaction to 9/11
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    • Systemic Corruption>
      • Papers
  • Juvenile "Injustice"
    • What are we doing to our children?
    • News around the world
    • News from U.S.
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  • Prison Nation
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    • Articles: Overview Issues
    • Mass Incarceration>
      • Papers
    • Solitary confinement
    • Supermax>
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    • Sentencing Discrepancies>
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    • Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
    • Three Strikes
    • The New Chain Gangs
    • Private For-Profit Prisons: Corporate welfare>
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    • Mentally ill in prison>
      • Papers and articles
    • Inside Rape>
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    • Effects on Families and Children>
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  • Neuroscience of law and justice
    • Fairness and Reciprocity>
      • Papers and Articles
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    • Diversity of Human Nature>
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    • Memory>
      • How memory is reconstructed
      • Eyewitness fallibility
      • The Line-up
      • Academic Papers on Memory
    • False Confession
    • Misperception and misjudgment>
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    • Micro-expressions>
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    • Volition>
      • Assumptions about personal agency and self-control>
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      • Temporary impulsive behavior
    • Prejudice and Discrimination>
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    • Unrecognized extenuating circumstances
  • Social psychology of justice
    • Values and Attitudes>
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    • Groupthink>
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    • System Justification>
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    • Obedience, Compliance, Conformity>
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    • Denial and Projection>
      • Papers and Articles
    • Whistleblowers as Traitors>
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    • Revisiting Zimbardo
    • Seminal Studies
    • Loyalty and Collusion>
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    • Search for belonging: gangs and mercenaries>
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    • Situational social roles>
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  • Debating Approaches
    • Punishment vs. prevention>
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    • Gun control and Common Sense>
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    • Drug treatment or harsh incarceration>
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  • Ineffective and Outdated Methods
    • Coercive Interrogation and leading questions>
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    • Myths About Psychological Profiling>
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    • Polygraph>
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    • Tough Love and Zero Tolerance>
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    • Bounties and Informants>
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    • Boot camps>
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    • The "Bad Seed" view>
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  • Economic and Political Issues
    • Privatization: mercenary and contract security>
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    • Inadequate training and monitoring >
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    • Mislabeling
    • Corruption: A Quiet Violence
    • War on Poor: Draconian Policies
    • Dickens and Les Miz
  • A Broad Cultural Background
  • Solutions
    • Prevention>
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    • Social Investment>
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    • Restorative Justice>
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    • Helping Kids-at-Risk>
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    • Juvenile Justice alternatives>
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    • Empathy and Ethics>
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    • Conflict resolution>
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    • Community-based programs>
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    • Never Assume>
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    • Offset Damage>
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    • Healing the Hurt>
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    • Global Approaches
    • Helping Law Enforcement Professionals>
      • Coping with danger and high-stress situations
      • Triage and Crowd Control
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    • Major Policy Reforms>
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  • Resources
    • Discussion of Methods
    • Exercises and Surveys
    • Authoritarian Questionnaire
    • Values Questionnaire
    • Civil Liberties Questionnaire
  • A Look at History
    • A History of Punishment
    • Inhumane incarceration, detention>
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    • Chain gangs, debtor’s prison, the poorhouse>
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    • Gulags, Political prisoners>
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    • Internment>
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  • Social Advances slideshow
  • Statistics
    • General Indicators
    • Stats: Prison Population
    • Stats: Gun Violence
    • Stats: Child abuse
    • Stats: Substance-abuse related violence
  • Recommendations
    • Organizations and Advocates
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    • TV Shows
    • Feature Films
    • Documentaries
    • Other Media
    • Exhibits
  • Index of all Links
  • Index of all paper topics
Siever, L. J. (2008). Neurobiology of aggression and violence. (A. J. Reiss Jr., Ed.)The American Journal of Psychiatry, 165(4), 429-442. 

Shannon, B. J., Raichle, M. E., Snyder, A. Z., Fair, D. A., Mills, K. L., Zhang, D., Bache, K., et al. (2011). Premotor functional connectivity predicts impulsivity in juvenile offenders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(27), 11241-11245.

Loeber, R., & Pardini, D. (2008). Neurobiology and the development of violence: common assumptions and controversies. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 363(1503), 2491–503. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0032

Neurophysiological Correlates of Laboratory-Induced Aggression in Young Men with and without a History of Violence
Wiswede D, Taubner S, Münte TF, Roth G, Strüber D, et al. (2011) PLoS ONE 6(7): e22599. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022599

Violent Crime, Epilepsy, and Traumatic Brain Injury
Volavka J (2011)  PLoS Med 8(12): e1001148. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001148

Risk of Violent Crime in Individuals with Epilepsy and Traumatic Brain Injury: A 35-Year Swedish Population Study
Fazel S, Lichtenstein P, Grann M, Långström N (2011) 
PLoS Med 8(12): e1001150. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001150

Repeated Exposure to Media Violence Is Associated with Diminished Response in an Inhibitory Frontolimbic Network
Kelly CR, Grinband J, Hirsch J (2007) PLoS ONE 2(12): e1268. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001268

Potential Markers of Aggressive Behavior: The Fear of Other Persons' Laughter and Its Overlaps with Mental Disorders
Weiss EM, Schulter G, Freudenthaler HH, Hofer E, Pichler N, et al. (2012) 
PLoS ONE 7(5): e38088. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038088

CSF-Biomarkers in Olympic Boxing: Diagnosis and Effects of Repetitive Head Trauma
Neselius S, Brisby H, Theodorsson A, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, et al. (2012) PLoS ONE 7(4): e33606. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033606

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