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  • Re-arranging fear: Police officers' discursive constructions of emotion

    Author(s)
    Frewin, Karen
    Stephens, Christine
    Tuffin, Keith
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Frewin, Karen
    Year published
    2006
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    Abstract
    This article concentrates on relationships between police officers, critical incident events and psychological support services. It challenges the traditional psychological theory of emotion, looking instead at the construction of emotion discourses in social interactions, in particular the rhetoric that police officers use to preserve their political and social environment. It examines the emotion talk of this particular cultural context through a reading of interviews with 11 police officers in New Zealand. A social constructionist perspective illustrates that officers use both emotion and non-emotion rhetoric for interpreting ...
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    This article concentrates on relationships between police officers, critical incident events and psychological support services. It challenges the traditional psychological theory of emotion, looking instead at the construction of emotion discourses in social interactions, in particular the rhetoric that police officers use to preserve their political and social environment. It examines the emotion talk of this particular cultural context through a reading of interviews with 11 police officers in New Zealand. A social constructionist perspective illustrates that officers use both emotion and non-emotion rhetoric for interpreting somatic and affective experiences of critical incident events, and they avoid interpreting their experience as "fear". It is argued that the rhetoric employed is appropriate and functional in a police work context. Findings are discussed in relation to the construction of emotion and the provision of support services such as trauma policy debriefing for personnel following traumatic experiences.
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    Journal Title
    Policing and Society
    Volume
    16
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10439460600811901
    Subject
    Social and Community Psychology
    Criminology
    Policy and Administration
    Social Work
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/28655
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