Evaluation of attitudinal changes in a program of community consultation
Tóm tắt
Mental health students consulted with policemen once weekly for 14 weeks, discussing interpersonal conflicts in which the officers had intervened. Pre- and post-measures of participants' attitudes were obtained. Officers' attitudes, as measured, did not change; their initially high self-evaluation was maintained. Consultants came to perceive individual policemen in a more positive-realistic way, as less aggressive and more interested in understanding human behavior, and the police system itself in a more negative way—becoming more cynical about it. The findings seem particularly noteworthy since the Kent State University and Jackson State College shootings occurred during the consultation period.
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