The Measurement of Police Integrity

Police integrity in the Netherlands and the United States: Awareness and alertness

“…Klockars has defined integrity as the normative inclination among the police to resist POLICE INTEGRITY 219 temptations to abuse the rights and privileges of their occupation (Klockars, Kutnjak Ivkovich, Harver and Haberfeld, 1997). He decided that the emphasis of the survey should fall on the perceptions of police officers about a number of readily recognizable and fairly universal scenarios based primarily on temptations faced by officers in their daily work; to how seriously they took the issues themselves, and to how seriously they thought their organization took them Kutnjak Ivkovich, Harver and Klockars, 1997;Haberfeld, Klockars, Kutnjak Ivkovich and Pagon, 2000). Following research in the USA, in three well-led, well-equipped departments with an emphasis on professionalism and integrity, the project was expanded to include a cross-national, comparative element with surveys in several countries.…”

Integrity, culture, and scale: an empirical test of the big bad police agency

“…al. [19] analyzed survey data on police agencies for the purpose of investigating the organizational theory of police corruption. This study attempts to build on the findings and implications of Klockars, et. al.…”

“…This study attempts to build on the findings and implications of Klockars, et. al. [19] by using Klockars [18] survey data to develop an economic model and empirical estimates of how factors related to organizational structure, such as scale of operations and police culture, predict and explain how specific acts of corruption are related to different sizes of police agencies.…”

“…al. [19]. Specifically, survey responses are not aggregated to correspond to individual police agencies.…”

Les idéologies professionnelles

“…Dans la sociologie de la police anglo-saxonne, les conceptions du métier constituent un champ de recherche à part entière, réunies sous l'étiquette d'étude de la « culture policière » (Waddington, 1999 ;Westmarland, 2008) ou de « rapport à l'éthique » (Klockars, Ivkovich, Harver et al, 2000 ;Neyroud, 2008). Tantôt quantitatives, tantôt qualitatives, ces enquêtes tentent de définir des profils policiers : autoritaire, raciste, cynique, sexiste penchant plutôt vers un profil assez monolithique avec un positionnement conservateur, sinon réactionnaire (Skolnick, 1966).…”