dc.contributor.author	Moore, Kristen Leigh
dc.coverage.spatial	United States, Georgia	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	2019-2020	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-28T17:58:30Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-28T17:58:30Z
dc.date.issued	2020-05
dc.identifier.other	3F5BDABA-7720-F8AD-4CD7-A9B82663CD7F	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/4224
dc.description.abstract	Officer retention is a major problem across the United States of America. The deficit creates problems within the agency itself, and for the citizens those officers serve and protect. I created a literature review from previous scholars on reasoning’s for officer retention with the focus being on income, suicide, and burnout. I also created a questionnaire that ran from September 2019 to March 2020 with respondents being sworn officers within my own department. The data was gathered anonymously and put into a bar graph for comparison. After consideration from previous scholars and the data gathered from the questionnaire the number one reason for officer retention problems is money. Officers feel the work they provide, and the dangerous path officers must walk do not equal to the pay they are currently receiving. My thesis represents a detailed snapshot into the problems of officer retention. Keyword 1: Officer; Keyword 2: Law Enforcement; Keyword 3: Police; Keyword 4: Uniform; Keyword 5: Patrol; Keyword 6: Retention;	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	I. CHAPTER 1: 1 -- II. CHAPTER 2: 5 -- III. CHAPTER 3: 16 -- IV. CHAPTER 4: 21 -- V. CHAPTER 5: 25 -- VI. REFERENCES: 26 -- VII. APPENDIX A -IRB APPROVAL: 32 -- VIII. APPENDIX B - SURVEY INSTRUMENT: 34 -- VIV. APPENDIX C - OFFICERS’ PERCEPTION OF JOB TURNOVER SURVEY: 36.	en_US
dc.format.extent	1 electronic document, 43 pages.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	Burn out (Psychology)	en_US
dc.subject	Employee retention	en_US
dc.subject	Georgia--Gwinnett County	en_US
dc.subject	Police--Suicidal behavior	en_US
dc.subject	Police-community relations	en_US
dc.subject	Police	en_US
dc.subject	Wages	en_US
dc.title	When the badge and gun just aren't enough"-Officer Retention Rate Problems	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice Of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Prine, Rudy
dc.description.committee	Huang, Wilson
dc.description.committee	Knowles, Fred
dc.description.degree	M.S.	en_US
dc.description.major	Criminal Justice	en_US