To assist in the continuing efforts to improve the safety of the motorist on the nation's highways and roads, this student guide provides a standardized approach for first responders to traffic accidents to learn emergency medical care. Training is provided in all aspects of emergency medical care required at the scene of a traffic accident.…

This manual is designed as a practical handbook for air pollution control officials. A variety of situations and tasks encountered in field operations are described and the appropriate action which should be taken is explained Topics include source detection, source inspection, recording and reporting inspections, maintaining a recording system,…

Reported in this article are the findings of an empirical survey undertaken in Seattle, Washington to determine the characteristics of persons who apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Findings presented indicate that something is occurring in interracial areas that encourages arming by both Blacks and Whites. (Author/EB)

The director of security for the Aurora Public Schools tells how the department he built has cut crime. (Author/MLF)

The Oklahoma City police strike of 1975 is examined. Available from the Commerce Clearing House, Inc., 4025 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60646. (IRT)

Stresses that students in public affairs reporting courses should learn how to cover police departments, courts, city councils, and budgets by working directly with local sources. Suggests course organization and assignments. (MM)

Sex role identity and personality characteristics were examined in 104 male college football players and police cadets by means of the Bem Sex Role Inventory and the California Psychological Inventory. No significant differences were found between these stereotypically "masculine" groups and normative samples of males. (CMG)

Assigning law enforcement officers to cover schools full-time as their beats proactively addresses concerns about juvenile crime and violence. The Center for the Prevention of School Violence trains School Resource Officers (SROs) and implements and evaluates SRO programs. In 1996, it developed a profile of officers serving North Carolina schools,…

Black and white, male and female, rich and poor, American teenagers have the herding instinct. Sometimes the kids get together for fun, sometimes for trouble, sometimes for political purposes--but mostly they crave recognition, recognition, companionship, and excitement. Gangs are a way of life for many adolescents, part of the ritual of growing…

Describes a short course for law enforcement personnel on improving interpersonal communication. (CH)

The criminal justice system may possibly increase the dangers to public safety by turning out a greater number of hostile and dangerous persons than it takes in. (DM)

Drawing upon results of interviews with 522 policemen in the black ghettos of 13 major cities in Spring, 1958, the authors speculate that by far most" of the white policeman's perception of black hostility is a projection of his own fears and prejudices, not legitimate reaction to actual hostility. (DB)

Law confidence in collective security contributes to the need for and the resistance to gun control policies. Time-series data on legal gun demand in Detroit from 1951 to 1977 are consistent with a model in which individuals respond to high violent crime rates, civil disorders, and police strength. (Author/RM)