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Police Officer as a Victim

Mgr. Ludmila Fonferová, Ph.D., doc. JUDr. Mgr. Joža Spurný, Ph.D., Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague, Faculty of Security Management, Department of Social Science

Can a police officer feel as a victim? If so, when and in what kind of situations? Are police officers able to admit such feelings? And how do these auto-victimogenous feelings affect the police officers’ actions? By what methods and strategies is it possible to identify such feelings? Searching answers to these questions is the subject and the main goal of the research carried out by the Department of Social Sciences in the period 2018-2022 (2023). The following article informs about the nature of this research and its partial results.

Keywords: police officer, victimogenous situations, social interaction, qualitative research, thematic analysis, social competence.


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