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- Title
Prejudice in the police: On the processes underlying the effects of selection and group socialisation.
- Authors
Gatto, Juliette; Dambrun, Michaël; Kerbrat, Christian; De Oliveira, Pierre
- Abstract
The principal aim of this study is to determine why police officers are generally found to be more prejudiced towards disadvantaged groups than are the standard population. Two independent processes were expected to account for this effect: Selection and group socialisation. Using a cross-sectional design (N = 170), firstly, we compared, newly recruited police officers with a control population (selection effect), and secondly, police officers with 1 year of training with the newly recruited ones (group socialisation effect). Results reveal a significant effect of both selection and group socialisation, the two being underlined by distinct processes; right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in the case of the former and internalisation of a prejudice norm in the case of the latter. Finally, the results show that group identification moderates the change in internalisation of the prejudice norm. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
PREJUDICES; POLICE attitudes; SOCIAL groups; SOCIALIZATION
- Publication
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 2, p252
- ISSN
0046-2772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ejsp.617