Run a safe and successful crisis negotiationfrom start to finish!
The Elements of Police Hostage and Crisis Negotiations: Critical Incidents and How to Respond to Them reduces the negotiation procedures for hostage, barricaded, and suicide incidents to their basic elements, providing quick and easy access to the information you need-from the initial call-out to the final debriefing. Based on field-tested principles proven to work, the book also includes newly developed and highly specialized techniques for more experienced negotiators. Author James L. Greenstone provides a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to the intervention and negotiation process that will help you get the job doneright.
Designed for day-to-day, on-the-scene use, The Elements of Police Hostage and Crisis Negotiations is a practical handbook for experienced professionals and novices that can also be used as a supplementary textbook for criminal justice, crisis intervention, and psychology coursework. Each chapter contains useful checklists, procedural notes, tables, strategy worksheets, and forms, and the book includes special indices for quick reference in addition to a traditional index. Dr. Greenstone, a police mental health consultant and psychologist who served as Director of the Psychological Services Unit of the Fort Worth Police Department in Texas, uses a simple and direct format that emphasizes procedures, action and results, leaving theoretical discussions for another time and place. The book examines the negotiation process from start to finish, including preincident preparations, first response responsibilities, responding to the call-out, arriving at the scene, preparing to negotiate, making contact, preparing for the surrender, post-incident tasks, preparing equipment, and more.
Topics covered in The Elements of Police Hostage and Crisis Negotiations include:
legal considerations
telephone surveillance guidelines
the Stockholm Syndrome
working with S.W.A.T. and Tactical Emergency Medical Support
dealing with the media
recognizing red flags
the issues of suicide
debriefing the hostage team
the 150 laws of hostage and crisis negotiation
and the 10 most serious errors a negotiator can make
The Elements of Police Hostage and Crisis Negotiations: Critical Incidents and How to Respond to Them is a practical guide that's equally effective in the field, in training, and in the office.
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-7890-1895-3 (9780789018953)
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Foreword (H. H. A. Cooper)
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Preincident Preparation
Select Negotiators
Establish Selection Timeline
Use the Decision Tree
Develop General Orders and Standard Operating Procedures
Deal with the Media
Chapter 2. First-Response Duties
Follow the Steps for First Response
Develop Intelligence at the Scene
Gather Important Information Immediately in Hostage and Barricade Situations
Chapter 3. Callout Response
Keep Equipment Prepared
Prepare Your Family
Prepare Yourself
Respond to the Scene
Report to the Command Post
Chapter 4. Arriving on Scene and Setting Up
Organize Personnel at the Scene
Remain Aware of Legal Considerations
Observe Telephone Surveillance Guidelines and Laws
Set Up Telephone or Other Communication System
Chapter 5. Preparing to Negotiate
Review Information on the Abnormal Psychology of Hostage Takers
Review Negotiations Strategies
Chapter 6. Making Contact and Beginning Negotiations
Know the Stages of Negotiations
Review the Greenstone Model of Crisis Intervention
Determine Whether You Have a Hostage or Crisis Situation
Review the Basic Steps for Contact with the Hostage Taker
Use Boards
Ignore Deadlines, but Be Prepared to Explain
Listen for Demands
Prepare for Face-to-Face Negotiations
Set Goals for Negotiations
Remember That Negotiations Are a Team Effort
Keep the Subject in Problem-Solving Mode
Determine Whether You Are Making Progress
Know How to Use the Pat Words and Phrases
Go Step by Step
Understand and Use Stockholm Syndrome
The Dos and Don'ts for Hostage and Crisis Negotiators
Use Time Appropriately
Understand Why We Do Not Trade Hostages
Use Translators Appropriately and Effectively
Know When and How to Call a Time-Out
Select a Mental Health Professional to Assist the Team
Be a Mental Health Consultant to a Negotiations Team
Chapter 7. Preparing for the Surrender
Understand and Develop the Process
Use the Guidelines
Chapter 8. Postincident Tasks
Debrief the Hostage Negotiations Team
Use the Debriefing Sheet
Review the Ten Most Serious Errors
Illustrative Case Study: Why Did It Work?
Chapter 9. Attending to Special Issues
Consider Risk Factors
Utilize the Violence Risk Analysis Worksheet
Review Red Flag Indicators and Pay Attention to Them
Know When to Terminate Utilities
Know How to Win and Lose As a Team
Know How to Survive if You Are Taken Hostage
Consider the Role of Tactical Emergency Medical Support for Negotiators
Chapter 10. Specific Issues Relating to Suicide
Review the Procedures for Responding to a Suicidal Subject
Know How to Use the Lethality Scale
Recognize a Suicide by Cop: Victim-Precipitated Suicide
Confronting Adolescent Suicide
Chapter 11. Developing Negotiator Survival Skills
Use Self-Relaxation Skills
Understand the Signs of Job Stress and Burnout
Develop Personal Survival Skills
Chapter 12. Learning and Using Effective Communication Skills
Ask the Right Questions
Understand the Messages
Understand the Nature of Distortions
Be Empathetic
Never Assume
Clarify Statements
Know When and How to Ask Questions
Deal Effectively with Silence
Understand Content and Feelings
Respond to the Subje
