There has been speculation by researchers regarding the potential fears, concerns, and difficulties experienced by children of police officers, such as fears about their parent being injured or killed while on duty, ridicule and bullying, or being personally assaulted. More disheartening are the increased potential stressors facing police officers’ children due to increased community hostility across the country over the last few years, particularly among the African American community, stemming from a series of police involved shootings of unarmed African American males. Yet, there remains scant research that has examined the lived experiences of police officers’ children. To address this gap in the policing literature, this study used semi-structured interviews of police officers children in a southern state using a phenomenological methodology to explore the lived experiences of being a child of a police officer. Findings and policy recommendations are discussed.
Social exchange theory is one of the prominent paradigms used to explain the processes linking organizational treatment of employees to their job performance. However, the theoretical link between perceived organizational treatment and police deviance has not been fully explored. This research addresses this gap by analyzing the relationship between perceptions of organizational justice and the use of police self-protective behaviors (SPBs) using organizational support and organizational indifference as ad hoc indicators of the social exchange process. Data were collected using an online self-report survey distributed to police officers in a southern state who are members of a police officer association ( n = 1,861). Consistent with previous social exchange research, the findings generally support the idea that fairness is related to SPBs, but largely to the extent that it enhances the social exchange in terms of increasing perceptions of organizational support and reducing perceptions of organizational indifference, which both directly affect an officer’s use of SPBs, and are a type of police deviance. Specific findings, relevant policy implications, and directions for future research are discussed.
Цель: изучение влияния организационной несправедливости на нарушение дисциплины сотрудниками правоохранительных органов в Соединенных Штатах Америки. Методы: диалектический подход к познанию социальных явлений, позволяющий проанализировать их в историческом развитии и функционировании в контексте совокупности объективных и субъективных факторов, который определил выбор следующих методов исследования: формально-логический, сравнительно-правовой, социологический. Результаты: многочисленные исследования подтверждают связь между проявлением справедливости на рабочем месте и производительностью труда. В данной работе организационная справедливость рассматривается как теоретическая основа для предсказания нарушений дисциплины сотрудниками полиции. В частности, исследовались реакции сотрудников полиции на действия, воспринимаемые как несправедливые, и выявлялась связь между восприятием общего уровня несправедливости и каждой из трех форм дисциплинарных нарушений: 1) использование норм и правил учреждения против руководства, 2) намеренный подрыв установок руководства и 3) невыполнение принятых норм и процедур. Сбор данных осуществлялся нерепрезентативной выборкой через Интернет посредством самоотчетов штатных полицейских-членов ассоциации офицеров полиции в одном из южных штатов.
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