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Care Bears and Crime-Fighters: Police Operational Styles and Victims of Crime

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Crime, Victims and Policy

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology ((PSVV))

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Over the last two decades victims’ rights and victims’ needs have gained traction as a key concern for policing agencies internationally (Hoyle and Young 2003). A range of developments have seen a shift in police protocols regarding their interactions with victims of crime — often based on research with victims and/or successful advocacy by victims’ rights organisations. These shifts range from expanding the curriculum of police recruit training (to include more detailed recognition of victims of crime) to increasing contact protocols with victims during the course of investigations and to the development of systems of referral to connect victims of crime with support services provided by agencies in the broader community.

So you go through the Academy and you learn all this good stuff and then you come out here and work with a senior constable who’s burnt out, who thinks the job has gone … and there’s nothing in it for him. So you’re working with a whole range of different people — you don’t get to pick who you work with — so some of it might rub off on you, especially if you’re trying to be mentored by them, trying to pick up what works and what doesn’t, and sometimes you get called a ‘Care Bear’ if you get too overindulgent in trying to help people. Regional station, snr. sgt, 25 years with Victoria Police

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Wilson, D., Segrave, M. (2015). Care Bears and Crime-Fighters: Police Operational Styles and Victims of Crime. In: Wilson, D., Ross, S. (eds) Crime, Victims and Policy. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383938_7

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