Seriousness of Police (Mis)Behavior and Organizational Justice

Ivković, Sanja Kutnjak; Haberfeld, M. R.; Mraović, Irena Cajner; Prpič, Marko; Hamm, Joseph A.; Wolfe, Scott E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29065-8_4

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“…This version of the questionnaire was distributed to the 2008 sample. The third version of the questionnaire (Kutnjak Ivković et al. , 2019), distributed to the 2019 sample, expands in the direction of organizational deviance, but it nevertheless includes seven scenarios from the police integrity questionnaire.A police officer is widely liked in the community.…”

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A reexamination of the code of silence and disciplinary fairness in South Korea over 11 years

Wook

Ivković

Jung

2022

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PurposeThis paper aims to provide an in-depth exploration of the code of silence in Korean policing and its relationship to perceptions of disciplinary fairness.Design/methodology/approachThe authors separately surveyed 370 Korean police officers in 2008 and 356 Korean police officers in 2019. The respondents were asked to evaluate seven hypothetical scenarios measuring different types of police misconduct from police corruption to the use of excessive force.FindingsThe results demonstrated that the strength of the code of silence decreased over a decade. The code of silence seems to protect less serious examples of police misconduct more strongly than more serious examples of police misconduct. Furthermore, the extent of the code of silence and perceptions of discipline severity are closely related in situations in which the expected discipline is evaluated by officers as too harsh. When police officers evaluated the expected discipline as fair, they were less likely to adhere to the code of silence than when they evaluated the expected discipline as too harsh, providing support for the simple justice model. On the other hand, the results are mixed for comparisons of the code of silence among respondents who evaluated discipline as fair and those who evaluated discipline as too lenient.Originality/valueThis is one of few studies focusing on the potential changes in the code of silence over time and on its relationship with the perception of disciplinary fairness. South Korea has conducted a reform of the police (the Grand Reform) in the late 1990s and more recently enacted the new laws regulating police misconduct. This study relies on two independent surveys of the same population of police officersto empirically assesses potential changes resulting from these societal and organizational transformations.

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confidence: 99%