Stress in small town and rural law enforcement: Testing the assumptions |
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Authors: | Willard M. Oliver Cecil “Andy” Meier |
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Affiliation: | (1) College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, P.O. Box 2296, 77340 Huntsville, TX;(2) American Red Cross, USA |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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