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Does the police code of silence vary with police assignment? An empirical exploration of the relation between the code and assignment

This paper contains an in-depth exploration of the relation between police code of silence and police assignment. A police integrity survey was used to measure the contours of the code among Croatian patrol officers, detectives, and community-policing officers. Samples of police officers evaluated fourteen hypothetical scenarios describing various forms of police misconduct. Whereas the type of assignment was a weak predictor of the respondents’ adherence to the code of silence, the respondents’ assessments of misconduct seriousness and expected discipline, as well as perceptions whether other officers would report misconduct, were strong predictors of the respondents’ own expressed adherence to the code.

police integrity ; misconduct ; code of silence ; assignment detectives ; patrol ; community policing ; Croatia

Police, Practice & Research is abstracted/indexed in: CSA Political Science Abstracts, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, Health and Safety Science Abstracts, OCLC, PsycINFO, Risk Abstracts Online, Sociological Abstracts and PAIS International (Print).