How Stress Affect Law Enforcement
Course Title: LAW
Assignment: Stress aspects of being a law enforcement officer
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Date: 25 May 2018
Law enforcement officers are affected by a lot of stress which occur due to their working environment, this kind of stress affect them either physically or mentally. We have four aspects of stress that affect the law enforcement officers:
Operational stress; this is the stress that comes about dues to their day to day work mainly in urban areas, this operations include chasing criminals, dealing with drug addicts and also on the other hand the society heavily depends on them hence expect high expectations from them, this affect them mentally. (Chapin, M., Brannen, S. J., Singer, M. I., & Walker, M. (2008). In many cases the officers distant themselves from others and they do not really care about their personal life again, this affects the officer socially. Sometimes the offices gets mood swings whereby they become angry to others thus makes him/her separate with friends hence affects him/her personally.
External stress; this kind of stress comes about when officers are carrying out their duties, this mainly instill some kind of suspicion to officers whenever they come across some kind of behaviors which relates to some acts which had happened before, officers are now affected socially …show more content…
(Jaramillo, F., Nixon, R., & Sams, D.
Assignment: Stress aspects of being a law enforcement officer
Students Name:
Instructor:
Date: 25 May 2018
Law enforcement officers are affected by a lot of stress which occur due to their working environment, this kind of stress affect them either physically or mentally. We have four aspects of stress that affect the law enforcement officers:
Operational stress; this is the stress that comes about dues to their day to day work mainly in urban areas, this operations include chasing criminals, dealing with drug addicts and also on the other hand the society heavily depends on them hence expect high expectations from them, this affect them mentally. (Chapin, M., Brannen, S. J., Singer, M. I., & Walker, M. (2008). In many cases the officers distant themselves from others and they do not really care about their personal life again, this affects the officer socially. Sometimes the offices gets mood swings whereby they become angry to others thus makes him/her separate with friends hence affects him/her personally.
External stress; this kind of stress comes about when officers are carrying out their duties, this mainly instill some kind of suspicion to officers whenever they come across some kind of behaviors which relates to some acts which had happened before, officers are now affected socially …show more content…
(Jaramillo, F., Nixon, R., & Sams, D.