Episode 114 - Police Academy 8: Behavior Analysts on Patrol w/ Dr. John O'Neill
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
One of the joys of having done the podcast long is learning about the sheer number of applications of behavior analysis in the world. This week, Dr. John O'Neill brings us ABA in a way we never expected: Behavior assessment as a means of improving police training. Aside from the novel use of FBA methodology, we discuss the current state of police academy procedure in America and some of the ways behavior analysis might be able to help.
Articles discussed this episode:
O'Neill, J. (2018). Functional behavior assessment of the unintentional discharge of firearms in law enforcement. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 38, 275-287. doi: 10.1080/01608061.2018.1514348
O'Neill, J., O'Neill, D.A., Weed, K., Hartman, M.E., Spence, W., & Lewinski, W.J. (2019). Police academy training, performance, and learning. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12, 353-372. doi: 10.1007/s40617-018-00317-2
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. |
| 0:24.3 | Hello, Rob. It's Diana. |
| 0:25.7 | And it's me, Jackie. |
| 0:27.3 | Hey, guys, I know we usually do like a bit. |
| 0:29.2 | We start talking about something totally unrelated to applied behavior analysis and the behavior |
| 0:32.7 | analytic research that we love to discuss every single week on our show. |
| 0:36.8 | But we do have a fourth very |
| 0:39.6 | special guest co-host tonight. So I don't want to, I don't want to waste his time and |
| 0:44.8 | make him sit here and listen to our chit-chat, rattling on, waiting for our children to come out |
| 0:49.0 | and bother us in our very professional recording studio here. So let's introduce our very special |
| 0:53.7 | guest. Without any further ado, |
| 0:56.0 | John O'Neill, John, thank you so much for coming over and being on the show tonight. |
| 1:00.0 | Thanks for having me, guys. So tonight we're going to be talking about training in the police academy |
| 1:05.6 | using behavior analytic principles or I guess generally just using behavior analytic principles |
| 1:10.0 | in law enforcement |
| 1:11.5 | research. |
| 1:12.9 | John, how do you usually describe it when you're doing talks and when you're, you know, getting |
| 1:16.5 | ready to publish something, you know, new in the field? |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah, so applications of behavioral science and the police academy training is usually how |
| 1:23.6 | I talk about it. |
| 1:24.5 | Okay. |
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