| This dissertation analyzes the factors that underlie job satisfaction for police officers who are serving as school resource officers. Assignment of police officers in schools as school resource officers is a practice that has grown in recent years and yet the role of the school resource officer remains inconsistently defined. This fluctuation in role definition leads to variation in practice. This study seeks to determine the factors that underlie SRO job satisfaction as a first step to determining ways in which the role could be more clearly defined to improve job satisfaction, align and identify best practices and conform to policy requirements.;Keywords: school resource officer, SRO, police job satisfaction. |
