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- Title
The Structural Factors of Police Corruption.
- Authors
Puma Shen; Mau-Sheng Lee; Susyan Jou
- Abstract
Inspired by neo-institutional theory, this article aims to answer two questions. First, what are the structural factors of police corruption? Second, how can police corruption be stopped? The article first reviews corruption literature from the past 40 years, systematically analyzing proposed prevention methods. Then it progresses to assessing interviews with convicted police officers, prosecutors, and bribers as well as representatives from police reform groups and the media--assessing 27 groups in total--to analyze the structural factors of corruption. The results are further verified by 24 experts from focus groups. The main finding in this research is that the organizational triangle--including information passed down from the three "triangle" entities KPI, informal finance, and the white glove--has generated the habitus of corruption. Based on this finding,this study proposes the concept of the police corruption ladder, which could serve as a reference for policy makers in formulating countermeasures that can prevent police corruption in the future.
- Subjects
POLICE corruption; POLICE reform; POLICE; KEY performance indicators (Management); FOCUS groups
- Publication
Crime & Criminal Justice International / Fànzuì yǔ Xíngshì Sīfǎ Yánji, 2021, Vol 34, p35
- ISSN
1810-4045
- Publication type
Article