RT Article
T1 Stress in small town and rural law enforcement: Testing the assumptions
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 29
IS 1
SP 37
OP 56
A1 Oliver, Willard M.
A2 Meier, Cecil “Andy”
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764206401
AB Sandy and Devine (1978) theorized that small-town and rural police officers experienced Stressors different from their urban counterparts. They delineated four rural stress dimensions: security, social factors, working conditions, and inactivity. Despite the number of hypotheses annunciated by these authors from their exposure to small-town and rural police, they have never been tested. This study is an attempt to rectify this deficiency in the literature by testing their theory/hypotheses with data derived from a survey questionnaire of West Virginia law enforcement officers. The findings of this study lend support for many of the original hypotheses and all four of the dimensions.
K1 Stress Training
K1 Police Discretion
K1 Police Stress
K1 Urban Counterpart
K1 Police Officer
DO 10.1007/BF02885703