...Christopher M. Donner; Jon Maskály Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the nature of the code of silence among police recruits in an effort to provide recommendations to reduce its occurrence and harm to society. Design/methodology/approach Data analyses are performed on a multi...

... of deterrence was a consistent predictor of support for corruption across different models compared to corruption prevalence. Contrary to previous studies, code of silence was found not to predict officers’ support for corruption. Originality/value This paper contributes to the police culture and corruption...

... corruption Citizens Code of silence Reporting police misconduct From the early policing writings (e.g. Bittner, 1970 ; Goldstein, 1970 ; Westley, 1970), the code of silence is conceptualized as an informal prohibition of reporting police misconduct committed by fellow police officers. One...

...Wook Kang; Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich; Jeyong Jung Purpose This paper aims to provide an in-depth exploration of the code of silence in Korean policing and its relationship to perceptions of disciplinary fairness. Design/methodology/approach The authors separately surveyed 370 Korean police...

... enforcement agencies (Burch, 2016 ; Langston, 2010 ; Reaves, 2012 , 2015). Regardless of women's mistreatment, most of the literature has focused on why women do not report sex-based discrimination using various occupational and organizational factors to consider (e.g. reprisal, code of silence, boy's...

...Sanja Kutnjak Ivković; Maria Haberfeld; Wook Kang; Robert Patrick Peacock; Louise E. Porter; Tim Prenzler; Adri Sauerman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the contours of the police code of silence, a critical component of the ability to control misconduct and enhance integrity...

... there exists a code of silence among Chinese officers, and that Chinese officers hold a lenient attitude toward the use of excessive force. Research limitations/implications This study utilizes a convenient sample, which restricts the generalizability of the results. Practical implications The results...

... organisational efforts to communicate values and support officers to make ethical decisions. Originality/value – The paper contributes to understanding the “code of silence” in perpetuating police misconduct and how it may be reduced. H3. Both perceptions of others’ reporting behaviour...

..., the study was conducted on a representative sample of 408 frontline Slovenian police officers (87.3 percent were male and 12.7 percent were female). The assessment of the code of silence was conducted using the method developed by Klockars and Kutnjak Ivković (2004), and consisted of 14 hypothetical...