Exploring the utility of general strain theory in explaining problematic alcohol consumption by police officers

By Marc L. Swatt, C. Gibson, Nicole Leeper Piquero. 2007

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Stigma, Pluralistic Ignorance, and Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services Among Police Officers (2016, background): “…to traumatic events, to numb depressive feelings, or to help them relax or sleep (Bonifacio, 1991; Kirschman, 2007; Kirschman et al., 2013), and Swatt, Gibson, and Piquero (2007) found that higher levels of anxiety and depression were associated with higher levels of problematic drinking among…”
• Police suicide: prevalence, risk, and protective factors (2013, background): “Other estimates have been more conservative, attributing 25 percent of police deaths each year to alcohol use (Swatt et al., 2007; Violanti, 2007).”
• Mapping Police Stress (2011, background): “The third goal is to enable formal testing of research hypotheses, several of which are consistent with extant criminological theories such as general strain theory (e.g., Swatt et al., 2007).”