... and report the behavior to informal peers. This paper considers how civilian complaint behavior may contribute to a “dark figure” of police misconduct. Design/methodology/approach A survey was administered to a Census-matched group of Americans, asking respondents to indicate their reporting preferences...

... for initial and ongoing training in police ethics, as well as behavioural and cultural evaluations and interventions, by examining the rationalisations used in cases of police misconduct. Originality/value This research is the first to apply Sykes and Matza’s neutralisation framework in exploring police...

...Christopher Harris; Sean Perry Purpose Investigating complaints against police misconduct is vital to accountability, and this task is commonly delegated to Internal Affairs (IA) units within large police departments. IA units vary considerably in the degree to which they find evidence...

... to report information on police officers’ friendship networks in the workplace, and these results show that peer influence remains an important vector for police management to use in promoting prosocial police culture and preventing misconduct. Police misconduct Social embeddedness Policing Social...

...Allison Martin Purpose This study explores the influence of police coercive actions during Stop, Question, and Frisk (SQF) encounters on citizen complaints of police misconduct in 76 precincts in New York City. Design/methodology/approach Using data from NYPD's SQF reports, Citizen Complaint...

... to contribute to the emerging knowledge base on police misconduct through analysis of 28,429 complaints among 3,830 officers in the New York Police Department, between 2000 and 2019. Design/methodology/approach This study utilized a data set consisting of officer and complainant demographics, and officer...

...Jessica Huff; Michael D. White; Scott H. Decker Purpose Many examinations of police misconduct involve case study methodologies applied to a single agency, or a handful of agencies. Consequently, there is little evidence regarding the types of misconduct across agencies, or the impact...

.... As a replication of prior studies on police integrity, we field the integrity instrument developed by Klockars et al. (2000) . This instrument has 11 general scenarios describing a range of behaviors. Because these behaviors described in the scenarios are also forms of police misconduct in China...

...Jon Maskaly; Christopher M. Donner; Lorie Fridell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether homophily – whereby people are influenced by those perceived as similar to themselves – affects attitudes toward police misconduct. Specifically, whether demographic dissimilarity between...

... sample of 1,389 police officers in three large cities in Texas. The survey instrument used for this research was the Police Work Experience Survey. Results from regression analyses are presented. Findings Findings showed that the organization influenced police misconduct, but misconduct was dependent...

..., and encourage further research while supporting hiring more women for other reasons. As research into gender and police misconduct has not provided a systematic approach for understanding the complex nature of these gender differences, further inquiry into its opposite – police integrity – may be beneficial...

...Robert E. Worden; Christopher Harris; Sarah J. McLean Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critique contemporary tools for assessing and managing the risk of police misconduct and suggest directions for their improvement. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on extant...

..., 1994). The two‐year investigation identified an emergent nexus between police misconduct and the operation of drug markets that had transformed the composition of police corruption. Whereas previous scandals usually arose within the context of payoffs tied to gambling or prostitution rackets...

.../methodology/approach The respondents surveyed in this study are 468 Armenian police officers assigned to work in two large police departments, Yerevan and Lori. The overall response rate is 84 per cent. The respondents evaluated 11 hypothetical scenarios describing cases of police misconduct. Findings...

... administrators interested in controlling police corruption and curtailing the code of silence should start with their subordinate supervisors first. The strong code of silence among the supervisors prevents them from playing their critical role in the control of police misconduct and the curtailing of the code...

...) and the Police Comprehensive Academy (PCA). The questionnaires distributed to police officers contained 14 vignettes describing various forms of police misconduct. The sample consists of 329 police officers, mostly non‐supervisors, attending courses at the KNPU and PCA. Findings Results indicate...

... to police Police misconduct Direct experience with the police is considered an important contributor to one's general impression of officers and the institution of policing (Hawdon, 2008 ; Schuck et al., 2008 ; Tyler and Huo, 2002). Direct experiences with the police can be either...

... (Deosaran, 2002). Internal investigations of police misconduct rarely if ever occur on time, and according to a 1999 report, 18 officers were allowed to continue working for the TTPS after being convicted of serious crimes (Deosaran, 2002). The police in turn may develop poor impressions of the public...

... years. Since officers in this agency can retire with a full pension after 20 years of service, this cohort strategy allows one to view officer performance over a significant portion of their late career [2] . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Problem employees Police misconduct...

... and of trust and manifests itself in many ways but most frequently in consensual and exploitive relations with criminals, in discrimination against certain groups, in excessive violence,and in infringement of the rule of law and due process. Police misconduct Administration of justice and law...