...%, providing an opportunity to examine decision-making in an agency with relatively active emergency response practices. South Korea's experience illustrates these challenges. Following the enactment of the Act on Punishment of Stalking Crimes (APCS) in 2021, which introduced multi-layered emergency protection...

... an administrative district of Seoul, South Korea. Very few studies have analyzed crime hot spots using STPSS in Korea. The studies that have tended to focus on identifying several spatial-temporal clusters of crimes only with a fixed maximum temporal limit (Jeong et al., 2010). To contribute to the field...

... effectiveness while controlling for geographical crime displacement, a known side effect of CPTED in the literature. Findings The analysis results show that CPTED is an effective tool to prevent sexual assaults in South Korea. The sexual assault occurrence rate decreased in the CPTED implementation zone...

... culture), this study accounts for the mediating role of organizational culture in the transformational leadership-commitment link with multiple variables frequently used in previous research being controlled. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Transformational leadership South Korea...

... purpose of the current study is to examine the association between community policing and fear of crime in the Korean context. Design/methodology/approach The data originated from a survey administrated by the Korean Institution of Criminology in the area of Seoul, South Korea, in an attempt...

... integrity among a convenience sample of police officers from South Korea. Practical implications The Korean police administrators interested in controlling police misconduct could utilize this methodology to explore the contours of the code of silence among the Korean police. The results of the study...

... and their implications are discussed in depth against the unique South Korean background where frontline officers are routinely victimized by suspects and citizens. Police use of force Police stress South Korea Structural equation modelling Policing Stress Men Ilhong Yun can be contacted at: ilhongyun...

... climate among officers was significantly and positively related to officers' levels of commitment to COP. Finally, officers in rural agencies were more likely to have higher levels of commitment to COP in South Korea. Research limitations/implications Although the current study utilized random samples...

...Mahesh K. Nalla; Wook Kang Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a broader understanding of police organizational culture in South Korea. More specifically, given its history and culture, the aim is to examine various elements of organizational culture as perceived by line officers...

... factors might influence officers' attitudes regarding COP to expand our understanding of COP implementation. Community policing Leadership Police Organizational restructuring South Korea It has been more than three decades since community oriented policing (COP) was coined and implemented...

... decentralized resources and authority, Jigoodae would be considered as an example of centralizing organizational structure of KNPA for more efficient police management of traditional policing in South Korea. Currently, KNPA uses five different tactics for community oriented policing: 1. facilitation...

... a developed economy (USA), an emerging economy (South Korea), and a transitional economy (Slovenia). More specifically, it compares the views that private and public police personnel in a diverse set of countries hold about one another on various issues relating to their working relationships...

... in metropolitan cities and smaller areas. Design/methodology/approach The research used survey data collected from 1,500 police officers throughout South Korea. Ordinal logistic (ordered logit) regression was the main method of analysis considering the ordinal response in the dependent variable. Findings...

...). This is illustrated well by the evolution of a mini‐police station system unique to South Korea, which was later adopted in several Western countries as a strong expression of community policing (for more on the roles of a mini‐policing station, Moon et al., 2005 ; Rho, 2000). Rapid industrialization...

...Byongook Moon Purpose The study aims to examine the effect of organizational socialization into police culture on officers' attitudes toward community policing in South Korea. Design/methodology/approach The study sampled 694 Korean police officers. Policy implication and direction for future...

...Mahesh K. Nalla; Eui‐Gab Hwang Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature of the working relationship between police officers and private security officers in South Korea. More specifically, this study examines how police officers and security personnel perceive the working...