Policing: An International Journal: Volume 39 Issue 2

Expanding the measurement of police integrity

Matthew J. Hickman, Alex R. Piquero, Zachary A. Powell, Jack Greene

Klockars et al. use scenario methodology to measure perceived seriousness, level of discipline warranted, and willingness to report fellow officers engaged in various negative…

Police integrity in South Africa: a tale of three police agency types

Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Adri Sauerman

Following the theory of police integrity, the purpose of this paper is to explore empirically the contours of police integrity in South Africa using survey of the three South…

Police officer integrity: a partial replication and extension

Hyeyoung Lim, John J. Sloan

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…

An empirical test of the influence of society at large on police integrity in a centralized police system

Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Irena Cajner Mraović, Krunoslav Borovec

The purpose of this paper is to test the theory of police integrity, particularly its fourth dimension, on a centralized police agency and to assess the degree to which levels of…

Exploring the viability of an attitudes toward ethical behavior scale in understanding police integrity outcomes

Matthew J. Hickman, Zachary A. Powell, Alex R. Piquero, Jack Greene

Relying on a moral development theoretical framework, the purpose of this paper is to argue that the perceived seriousness of a particular behavior is a reflection of one’s…

A multi-country comparative study of the perceived police disciplinary environments

Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Maria Haberfeld, Wook Kang, Robert Peacock, Adri Sauerman

The purpose of this paper is to test an aspect of the theory of police integrity by exploring the perceived disciplinary threat made by police agencies in Croatia, South Africa…

Does discipline fairness matter for the police code of silence? Answers from the US supervisors and line officers

Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Robert Peacock, Maria Haberfeld

Following the theoretical model of reporting and disciplinary fairness developed by Kutnjak Ivković and Klockars (1998), the purpose of this paper is to use a survey of US police…

The code of silence and ethical perceptions: Exploring police officer unwillingness to report misconduct

Louise E Porter, Tim Prenzler

The purpose of this paper is to explore Australian police officers’ perceptions of unethical conduct scenarios with the aim of understanding unwillingness to report infractions…

The code of silence and female police officers in Slovenia: Gender differences in willingness to report police misconduct

Branko Lobnikar, Kaja Prislan, Barbara Čuvan, Gorazd Meško

For some time now, research conducted in the field of human behavior and criminology has pertained to the contemporary question as to whether there are any relevant differences…

Exploring gender-neutrality of police integrity in Estonia

Birgit Vallmüür

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there are gender differences in police integrity in Estonia.

Social bonds and police misconduct: An examination of social control theory and its relationship to workplace deviance among police supervisors

Christopher Donner, Jon Maskaly, Lorie Fridell

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between social control (adult social bonds) and police misconduct.

Special issue on police integrity: an introduction

Dennis P. Rosenbaum