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Shapiro, Lauren R. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
The purpose of this article was to improve the post-secondary vocational education curriculum for private security students by focusing on a particular applied skill -- detection of juvenile shoplifters. Educators are tasked with helping students to identify racist beliefs and reduce worldwide organisational racism in the retail industry.…
Descriptors: College Students, Urban Schools, Security Personnel, Crime Prevention
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Arya Priya – Qualitative Research Journal, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to undertake a phenomenological study of the working conditions and living standards of private security guards (private police) in New Delhi. The focus here is to bring forth their lived experiences as security guards. Design/methodology/approach: The paper touches briefly upon the theoretical formulations on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Inquiry, Interviews
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Bartels, Jared M. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2015
The present content analysis examines the coverage of theoretical and methodological problems with the Stanford prison experiment (SPE) in a sample of introductory psychology textbooks. Categories included the interpretation and replication of the study, variance in guard behavior, participant selection bias, the presence of demand characteristics…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Introductory Courses, Content Analysis, Institutionalized Persons