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Essay Instructions: discuss the historical development of hostage negotiations and how the field has evolved into crisis negotiations and examine the types of incidents where crisis negotiations may be used and incidents that have had an impact on the current status of crisis negotiations.

Essay Instructions: This unit examines the role psychologists play in crisis negotiations. The traditional rule of thumb is that a police psychologist is a member of the hostage negotiating team but should not be the actual person engaged in actual negotiations with the suspect.
In considering this debate please read the following two articles.
? Hatcher, C., Mohandie, K., Turner, J. & Gelles, M.G. (1998). The role of psychologists in crisis/hostage negotiations.Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 16, 455-472.
? Ebert, B.W. (1986). The mental health response team: An expanding role for psychologists. Professional Psychology, Research and Practice, 17, 6, 580-585.
Hatcher et al. (1998) argue that a psychologist can play one four roles in crisis negotiations but not act the primary negotiator while Ebert (1986) argues that the best person to negotiate with suspects is the police psychologist.
In a 300-500 word post in the thread to the left titled ?Research Assignment,? analyze the pros and cons of a police psychologist serving as the primary negotiator using evidence and examples from these articles

Essay Instructions: The traditional rule of thumb is that a police psychologist is a member of the hostage negotiating team but should not be the actual person engaged in actual negotiations with the suspect.

In considering this debate please read the following two articles.

Hatcher, C., Mohandie, K., Turner, J. & Gelles, M.G. (1998). The role of psychologists in crisis/hostage negotiations.Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 16, 455-472.
Ebert, B.W. (1986). The mental health response team: An expanding role for psychologists. Professional Psychology, Research and Practice, 17, 6, 580-585.

Hatcher et al. (1998) argue that a psychologist can play one four roles in crisis negotiations but not act the primary negotiator while Ebert (1986) argues that the best person to negotiate with suspects is the police psychologist.


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Essay Instructions: You have been hired by the Las Vegas Police Department to train its officers and crisis response team on hostage negotiations. With the jurisdiction in mind (about 200-300 calls a year) how would you train the officers? Be sure to include the forms of training, what you would cover, the length of the training, and who you would include in it.
As a police psychologist, you are part of an investigation of a homicide of a high profile community member. The information you received from the department is that this person (who is currently mayor of the city you work in) was found with a single gunshot wound to the head. He was last seen with another notable figure at a nearby restaurant. You learn that the deceased was the former police chief of your department and was and still is very close with many higher-ups and officers.
What role do you feel you would play in this investigation? What tools would you use and how would you use them?
Explain how the management of police departments affects officers. As a police psychologist, what can you do to help both management and the officers?