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- Title
How Do Police Officers Cope with Police Corruption and Corrupt Peers? A Typology in the Making.
- Authors
Constantinou, Angelo G
- Abstract
The phenomenon of police corruption has received a significant share of attention by both scholars and practitioners. However, although notable knowledge has been built on a corpus of circumferential issues in and determinants of corruption, the array of coping strategies of police officers who encounter corrupt practices and interact with corrupt colleagues has evaded empirical analysis. That said, this article sets out to do that and draws on data collected from a web survey, based on a sample of 446 Cypriot police officers. In the main, it is argued that inertia and apathy are embedded in the preponderance of police officers' attitudes towards their corrupt peers. Also, for delineating (and somewhat explicating) the coping strategies of police officers who share workplaces with corrupt peers, a typology based on the COPE Inventory is introduced.
- Subjects
POLICE corruption; POLICE; CORRUPTION; POLICE attitudes; INTERNET surveys; PEERS; POLICE shootings
- Publication
Policing: A Journal of Policy & Practice, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 3, p740
- ISSN
1752-4512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/police/pay080