... (e.g. Kutnjak Ivković et al., 2016a , b ; Maskály et al., 2020 ; Wu and Makin, 2019 ; Wu et al., 2018). In effect, findings from this line of research align with the police integrity theory developed by Klockars et al. (2006) proposing that police integrity...

... on the attitudes toward misconduct was entirely mediated by the fear of extralegal forms of punishment. However, this mediation effect was held only for the officers in supervisory positions. Originality/value Probing a moderated mediation between the type of rank and sanction threats on police integrity...

... models. However, the direct effect of the diffuse support completely disappears in most of the models once scenario-specific police integrity measures (e.g. views of expected discipline severity and estimates whether police officers would report misconduct) are included as well. With the exception of age...

... Licensed re-use rights only Police integrity Misconduct Ethics Code of silence Discipline The Korean police have a long legacy of misuse of power. As recently as the 1970s and 1980s, the Korean police did not maintain political neutrality but participated in manipulating elections...

... within any police agency. Unlike the extant research, dominated by single-country studies, this paper provides an in-depth exploration of the code across five countries and tests the relation between the code of science and societal characteristics. Design/methodology/approach A police integrity...

...Guangzhen Wu; David A. Makin; Yongtao Li; Francis D. Boateng; Gassan Abess Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the contours of police integrity among Chinese police officers. Specifically, this study explores how Chinese police evaluate integrity based on official policy governing...

...Birgit Vallmüür Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there are gender differences in police integrity in Estonia. Design/methodology/approach – The exploratory study is based on a police integrity survey – gender-neutral in nature – carried out in the Estonian...

...Hyeyoung Lim; John J. Sloan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to partially replicate and extend the work of Klockars et al. and others on police integrity by examining how individual, organizational, and ecological factors affect police supervisors’ perceptions of police misconduct...

... – Previous research on socialization and police culture has focussed on recruits being socialized in a negative police culture where misconduct is learned. This is a negative interpretation of police integrity. A positive one refers to ethical decision making generally, and moral reasoning specifically...

...Sanja Kutnjak Ivković; Wook Kang Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the contours of police integrity among Korean police officers a decade after police reform was started. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected in 2009 at the Korean National Police University (KNPU...