Full Description
This work provides an innovative new look at police ethics, including results from an updated version of the classic Police Integrity Questionnaire, including new social and technological advances. It aims to push the study of police research further, expanding on and testing police integrity theory and methodology, the relationship between community and integrity, and the influence of multiculturalism and globalization on policing and community attitudes.
This work brings together experienced scholars who have used the police integrity theory and the accompanying methodology to measure police integrity in eleven countries, and provide advance and sophisticated explorations of the topic. Organized into three thematic sections, it explores the testing methodology for international comparisons, insights into police-community relations, and explores police subcultures.
This innovative book will be of interest to researchers in criminology & criminal justice, particularly with an interest in policing, as well as related fields such as sociology, public policy, and comparative law.
Contents
Part 1: Studying Classical Police Integrity Theory and Methodology.- Chapter 1: Exploring empirical research on police integrity.- Chapter 2: Overlapping shades of blue: Exploring police officer, supervisor, and administrator cultures of police integrity.- Chapter 3: Exploring differences in police integrity within a centralized police system.- Part 2: Expanding the Police Integrity Theory.- Chapter 4: Seriousness of police (mis)behavior and organizational justice.- Chapter 5: Exploring the relation between support for community policing and police integrity in South Africa.- Chapter 6: The contours of an organizational theory of green police integrity.- Chapter 7: Police integrity and the perceived effectiveness of policing: Evidence from a survey among Ugandan police officers.- Chapter 8: A complex relation between the code of silence and education.- Part 3: Expanding the Police Integrity Methodology.- Chapter 9: Public views about police misconduct and police integrity in a comparative perspective.- Chapter 10: Similar, different or somewhere in between? The police officer and citizen views on police misconduct.- Chapter 11: Slovenian resident and police officer evaluations of the harm caused by different types of police deviance.- Chapter 12: Exploring gender differences in the Australian context: Organizational and cultural dimensions of ethical attitudes.- Part 4: Exploring Validity and Reliability of Police Integrity Methodology.- Chapter 13: Improving the measurement of police integrity: An application of LTM to the Klockars et al. (1997) scales.- Chapter 14: The speed of progress: Comparing citizen perceptions of police corruption in Croatia over time.- Chapter 15: The effects of ethics training on police integrity.
