The personality assessment inventory as a selection device for law enforcement personnel

Weiss, William U.; Rostow, Cary D.; Davis, Robert D.; DeCoster-Martin, Emily

doi:10.1007/bf02813870

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“…Nevertheless, important strides have been made in this literature, including the examination of police misconduct utilizing several criminological theories, such as social learning theory (Chappell & Piquero, 2004), strain theory (Arter, 2007), control balance theory (Hickman, Piquero, Lawton, & Greene, 2001), social disorganization theory (Kane, 2002), deterrence theory (Pogarsky & Piquero, 2004), and self-control theory (Donner & Jennings, 2014). Although prior research has assessed personality correlates of police misconduct (e.g., Girodo, 1991; Weiss, Rostow, Davis, & DeCoster-Martin, 2004), and Pogarsky and Piquero (2004) used one dimension (i.e., impulsivity) of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) self-control concept to examine police misbehavior, only one study to date has directly examined the effect of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s theory on police deviance. Donner and Jennings (2014) utilized data from a sample of 1,935 Philadelphia police officers and found that low self-control is significantly related to officer misconduct.…”

Section: Police Misconductmentioning

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The Relationship Between Self-Control and Police Misconduct

Donner

Fridell

Jennings

2016

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Prior research has identified several individual, organizational, and community-level correlates of police misconduct, but studies based on theoretical explanations have only recently emerged in the literature. The purpose of the current study was to examine the potential relationship between self-control and police misconduct using both Gottfredson and Hirschi’s original version of self-control theory and Hirschi’s revised version of the theory. Data from a multi-agency sample of 101 first-line police supervisors demonstrated that self-control, as measured by both conceptualizations of the theory, was significantly related to self-reported prior engagement in police misconduct as well as the likelihood of future misconduct. The results are discussed in terms of theoretical and policy implications, as well as in terms of study limitations and directions for future research.

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Section: Police Misconductmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relationship Between Self-Control and Police Misconduct

Donner

Fridell

Jennings

2016

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, for example, includes several items that tap into Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) dimensions of low self-control (e.g., impulsivity, temper, and thrill-seeking). Moreover, prior studies have demonstrated that these behavioral and personality factors are related to negative police behavior, such as misconduct (e.g., Weiss, Rostow, Davis, & DeCoster-Martin, 2004). Of course, while events like divorce, debt, and car accidents are common to members of the general public—and many people experiencing these events are not necessarily impulsive or easily provoked—the accumulation of these analogous behaviors may serve to signal to police administrators that specific applicants may warrant additional screening or training in the academy and for monitoring as an officer as part of a larger early-warning detection system (Palmiotto, 2001; Walker & Alpert, 2002).…”

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Donner

Maskály²,

Jennings

2017

Police Quarterly

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Police officers have a continuum of force options available to them, but, without question, the most extreme of these options is deadly force. Recent officer-involved shootings in the United States, and their subsequent media attention, have placed police use of deadly force at the forefront of political, academic, and policy conversations. While the extant literature has uncovered numerous structural, organizational, and situational predictors of police shootings, studies to date are more limited with respect to individual-level factors and have essentially ignored criminological theoretical constructs. Using Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime as a theoretical framework, the current study fills a gap in the literature by using personal and agency records of 1,935 Philadelphia police officers to examine the relationship between low self-control and officer-involved shootings. The results indicate that officers with lower self-control are significantly more likely to have been involved in a police shooting.

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“…; 16-PF; Craig, 2005;Dantzker & Freeberg, 2003;Jacobs, Cushenbery, & Grabarek, 2011;Kitaeff, 2010;Lee, 2006;Personnel Selection, 2005;Sanders, 2003;Weiss, Rostow, Davis, & DeCoster-Martin, 2004). It appears the most often cited protocols being used are the MMPI-II, CPI, and the IPI with the MMPI being identified as the most common choice (Dantzker, 2007(Dantzker, , 2010Kitaeff, 2010;Dantzker & McCoy, 2006).…”

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Psychological preemployment screening for police candidates: Seeking consistency if not standardization.

Dantzker¹

2011

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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The psychological screening of police candidates is a hotly debated topic. The type of measures used lacks consistency and standardization. This often can lead to a candidate "shopping" for a psychologist who will eventually agree to his or her mental fitness for policing. More recently, the field of police psychology has received attention as a viable field of psychology, part of which involves the assessing of candidates for police employment. A possible hypothesis is that there would be consistency among police psychologists, who would differ from clinical psychologists, as to what measures should be used and why for assessing such candidates. Recent research suggests there is no consistency or differences.

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The personality assessment inventory as a selection device for law enforcement personnel

Cited by 19 publications

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The Relationship Between Self-Control and Police Misconduct

The Relationship Between Self-Control and Police Misconduct

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Psychological preemployment screening for police candidates: Seeking consistency if not standardization.

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