SOC 3750 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Probation Officer, Crown Attorney

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Impact stage: vicims at this stage feel vulnerable and helpless, lack of breath, sleep disturbance, loss of appeite, recoil stage, post-traumaic stress disorder, guilt and trauma, reorganizaion stage, vicims reestablish themselves. Second-level decision making (acions - alternaive to arrest) Threats/warning of an arrest: about of the ime this is the method of acion. Command: move along, go home , about 20% of cases this is the method of acion. Citaions: noice to appear in court, usually traic violaions, or minor by-laws. Use of third/paries second: probaion oicer, mental health faciliies. Mediaion: trying to get both paries to come to an agreement. Separaion: separaing suspect from other people on the scene. Nothing: about 10% of cases, decision to take no acion occurred. Other: file a report with a crown atorney to solidify further consideraion if such a person comes back into the system, dumping evidence to halt further use (alcohol, etc)