In Reviewing Riksheim and Chermak's (1993)analysis of the Determinants of Police

question 61

Multiple Choice

In reviewing Riksheim and Chermak's (1993) analysis of the determinants of police behavior,the authors of Chapter 1 ("Defining the Field of Applied Social Psychology")

• A) used the analysis to illustrate several different types of intervention strategies that can be employed to improve police performance
• B) suggested that the results of the analysis favor direct interventions at the level of individual differences
• C) indicated police use of force was predicted by variables at all the levels of analysis studied
• D) suggested that the police did not use force at all

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