The Policing Mind: Developing Trauma Resilience for a New Era - Paperback

by Jessica K. Miller (Author)

How does it feel to be a police officer in the UK? What happens in the brains of officers, particularly in high-risk roles such as counter-terrorism and child sexual exploitation? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience, be it trauma exposure, burnout or simply the daily pressure of adapting to life on the front line. A compulsory read for anyone with an interest in policing, the book offers practical, easy-to-follow resilience techniques applicable to anyone in the wider emergency responder community. The book also offers policy and operational recommendations to equip police officers with skills to face crime in a post-COVID world.

Author Biography

Dr Jessica K. Miller is consultant for the Royal Foundation, Director of Research at Police Care UK and Principal Investigator in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She has published works on policing trauma in The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles and Police Professional, the first UK police prevalence rate and the world's first work-related CPTSD prevalence rate in Psychological Medicine, genetic trauma research in J. Clin. Med and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and her thesis Lost in Trauma on military and police trauma is available online with Bournemouth University. Her work has been filmed by C4 Dispatches, BBC Inside Out and made headline news across the world in May 2019. Jess also had the privilege of interviewing New York Time bestselling author Rick Hanson during the pandemic of 2020.