Death Work: Police, Trauma, and the Psychology of Survival

by Vincent E. Henry

Book Overview

In this fascinating new book, Vincent Henry (a 21-year veteran of the NYPD who recently retired to become a university professor) explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers' encounters with death. Police can encounter death frequently in the course of their duties, and these encounters may range from casual contacts with the deaths of others to the most profound and personally consequential confrontations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195157656
• ISBN13: 9780195157659
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.4"