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oapen-20.500.12657-540252022-04-14T03:01:48Z Police Code of Silence in Times of Change Kutnjak Ivković, Sanja Maskály, Jon Kule, Ahmet Haberfeld, Maria Maki Police code of silence police integrity Police legitimacy police culture police misconduct procedural justice police reform defund the police Open Access bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKV Crime & criminology This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. Using a case study of a medium-sized U.S. police agency, this book employs the lens of police integrity theory to provide empirically grounded explanations of the code of silence. It examines the potential effects of organizational factors and the attitudes of individual police officers on their willingness to adhere to the code of silence in cases of police corruption, the use of excessive force, interpersonal deviance, and organizational deviance. The book focuses on the following factors that could influence the police code of silence in the times of change: The impact of organizational rule dissemination, discipline, and disciplinary fairness on the scope of the code of silence The role organizational justice plays in shaping police officer willingness to report misconduct The effect that police officers’ self-legitimacy has on their decisions to adhere to the code The influence of peer culture on individual police officer amenability to maintain the code The relationship between officers’ views of themselves, the organization, and the community on their willingness to report misconduct 2022-04-13T15:08:59Z 2022-04-13T15:08:59Z 2022 book ONIX_20220413_9783030968441_20 9783030968441 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54025 eng SpringerBriefs in Criminology; SpringerBriefs in Policing application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-96844-1.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-96844-1 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-96844-1 10.1007/978-3-030-96844-1 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9783030968441 Springer International Publishing 122 Cham open access
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This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. Using a case study of a medium-sized U.S. police agency, this book employs the lens of police integrity theory to provide empirically grounded explanations of the code of silence. It examines the potential effects of organizational factors and the attitudes of individual police officers on their willingness to adhere to the code of silence in cases of police corruption, the use of excessive force, interpersonal deviance, and organizational deviance. The book focuses on the following factors that could influence the police code of silence in the times of change: The impact of organizational rule dissemination, discipline, and disciplinary fairness on the scope of the code of silence The role organizational justice plays in shaping police officer willingness to report misconduct The effect that police officers’ self-legitimacy has on their decisions to adhere to the code The influence of peer culture on individual police officer amenability to maintain the code The relationship between officers’ views of themselves, the organization, and the community on their willingness to report misconduct
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