Policing: An International Journal: Volume 46 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Reexamining the police culture

Jon Maskály, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich

Coinciding crises: the effects of the police legitimacy and opioid crises on the culture of a specialized drug investigation unit

Jessica Frantz, Nicholas Michael Perez, Michael White, Aili Malm

The police killing of George Floyd and other high-profile incidents of force sparked massive protests around the world. Amidst eroding public perceptions of police legitimacy…

Police culture and officers' receptivity to body-worn cameras: a panel study

Hannah Cochran, Robert E. Worden

The objectives of this research were to examine how officer perspectives on body-worn cameras (BWCs) are patterned by broader occupational attitudes, and to analyze stability and…

Police officers' punitiveness in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of fear, attribution and self-legitimacy

Mahesh K. Nalla, Anna Gurinskaya, Hanif Qureshi

The focus of this study is to examine Indian police officers' punitiveness toward violators of criminal sanctions attached to COVID-19 mitigation laws enacted by the Indian Penal…

Adherence to the police code of silence: examining changes in recruits' perceptions during the training academy

Christopher M. Donner, Jon Maskály

The purpose of this study is to examine the nature of the code of silence among police recruits in an effort to provide recommendations to reduce its occurrence and harm to…

Predicting the police code of silence in China: does rural or urban setting matter?

Guangzhen Wu

This study aims to examine disparities in the code of silence between rural and urban police officers in China.

Police officers’ support for corruption: examining the impact of police culture

Moses Agaawena Amagnya

This study examines the relationship between police culture and support for corruption among Ghanaian police officers.

Mediation and moderated mediation in the relationship between sanction threats, type of rank and officer attitudes toward misconduct

Yongjae Nam

This study aims to examine whether officers' perceptions of the probability of suffering informal sanctions mediate the relationship between formal sanction threats and attitudes…

Contrasting the role of trustworthy versus fair supervisors in organizational justice models of policing outcomes

Robert Patrick Peacock, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Krunoslav Borovec, Irena Cajner Mraovic

Though contemporary police organizational behavior scholars often limit their measure of organizational justice to just supervisory procedural justice, this study examines how the…

Attitudes toward peers, supervisors, and citizens: a comparison of Chinese and Taiwanese police officers

Yuning Wu, Ivan Sun, Tzu-Ying Lo, Jianhong Liu

This paper comparatively assesses the connections between individual demographic traits, occupational characteristics, and organizational factors and officers' attitudes toward…

Can individualism/collectivism paradigm explain disparate roles for intermediaries in an organizational justice model of police compliance with agency rules?

Robert Patrick Peacock, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Yuning Wu, Ivan Sun, Valentina Pavlović Vinogradac, Marijan Vinogradac

This paper examines whether dissimilarities in societal cultures impact the path by which a key component of organizational culture—supervisory procedural justice (SPJ)—influences…

“I am doing my part, you are doing your part”: the sworn-civilian divide in police dispatching

Carlena Orosco, Janne E. Gaub

While police culture typically refers to the culture among sworn police personnel, there are internal cultural differences between subgroups. This has been documented among sworn…

Culture and well-being among sworn officers: an empirical examination

Silas Patterson, William R. King

This study aims to bridge the police culture and the police employee well-being literature by demonstrating significant linkages between the two.

Police stress: the role of occupational culture and officer characteristics

Eugene A. Paoline III, Jacinta M. Gau

The purpose of the current study was to augment the police culture and stress literature by empirically examining the impact of features of the internal and external work…