Police Integrity in Armenia

Khechumyan, Aleksandr; Ivković, Sanja Kutnjak

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2279-6_2

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“…Our results also mirror the studies on police integrity which found that perceptions of police integrity are mostly similar across different community types, but they still yield some differences (e.g. Khechumyan and Kutnjak Ivković, 2019; Kutnjak Ivković et al ., 2016; Kutnjak Ivković and Khechumyan, 2014). However, just like other studies indicate that there might be some urbanicity-related differences in experiences during the pandemic (e.g.…”

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“…Studies on police integrity (e.g. Khechumyan and Kutnjak Ivković, 2019; Kutnjak Ivković et al ., 2016; Kutnjak Ivković and Khechumyan, 2014) indicate that, despite the views being mostly similar across the rural-urban divide (e.g. Kutnjak Ivković and Khechumyan, 2014), there were some differences in the perceptions of misconduct seriousness, perceptions of disciplinary environments, and the code of silence.…”

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Exploring changes in urban, small town and rural policing during the COVID-19 pandemic: does urbanicity matter?

Kutnjak Ivković,

Kotlaja,

Liu

et al. 2024

PIJPSM

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PurposeWe explore the relationship between urbanicity and police officers’ perceptions of changes in their reactive and proactive work during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachUsing the 2021 survey of 1,262 Croatian police offices (436 police officers from a large urban community, 471 police officers from small towns and 155 from rural communities), we examine the perceived changes in their reactive activities (e.g. responses to the calls for service, arrests for minor crimes) and proactive activities (e.g. community policing activities, directed patrols) during the peak month of the pandemic compared to before the pandemic.FindingsThe majority of police officers in the study, regardless of the size of the community where they lived, reported no changes before and during the pandemic in reactive and proactive activities. Police officers from urban communities and small towns were more likely to note an increase in domestic violence calls for service. Police officers from urban communities were also more likely than the respondents from small towns and rural communities to report an increase in the responses to the disturbances of public order. Finally, police officers from small communities were most likely to observe a change in the frequency of traffic stops during the pandemic.Originality/valueThis study is the first one to explore the differences in perceptions of COVID-19-related changes in reactive and proactive police activities in a centralized police system.

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Exploring changes in urban, small town and rural policing during the COVID-19 pandemic: does urbanicity matter?

Kutnjak Ivković,

Kotlaja,

Liu

et al. 2024

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“…Prior studies on police attitudes have reported differences across subunits of the same police agency, such as precincts or districts (e.g. Hickman et al ., 2016; Khechumyan and Kutnjak Ivković, 2019; Klinger, 1997). Extant research has also explored differences across police workgroups (e.g.…”

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A comparative study of the police officer views on policing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Maskály

Ivković

Neyroud

2021

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PurposeThis study adds to the developing literature on how coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affected policing. Unlike prior research, which focused on police agencies, the authors focus on the perceptions and experiences of police officers. Specifically, about changes in workload or activities during the peak of the pandemic compared to prior to the pandemic. Additionally, officers report on changes in potential second-order effects resulting in changes from the pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe data come from the survey responses of 167 police officers from seven police agencies of various sizes from around the USA. The authors assessed mean level differences between organizations using a general linear model/ANOVA approach and report a standardized effect size.FindingsThere is a considerable heterogeneity in police officers' perceptions of organizational and operational changes made by their police agencies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that perceptions of some changes were more strongly by the agency than were others. The study’s results show there are substantive differences in how police officers from different police agencies viewed these operational and organizational changes (i.e. between agency differences). Most of the variance was primarily explained by differences between police officers within the same agency (i.e. within organization differences).Originality/valueThis study moves beyond the monolithic approach to studying how the pandemic affected the police agency and moves to asking officers about their experiences with these changes and the second-order effects of these changes.

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“…In particular, a recent comparative study by Kutnjak Ivković and Haberfeld (2015, p. 355) reveals that most of the surveyed police officers expected dismissalthe harshest disciplinein only five of ten countries (Kutnjak Ivković and Haberfeld, 2015, p. 355). Unlike Australia (Porter et al, 2015), Croatia (Kutnjak Ivković, 2015b), Estonia (Vallmuur, 2015), Slovenia (Lobnikar and Meško, 2015), and the USA , where the expected outcome is dismissal, the majority of the police officers surveyed in Armenia expected milder discipline (Khechumyan and Kutnjak Ivković, 2015), some combination of written warning, salary decrease, and suspension in South Korea (Kang and Kutnjak Ivković, 2015), verbal reprimand in Thailand (Phetthong and Kutnjak Ivković, 2015), and no discipline at all in Russia (Cheloukhine et al, 2015). Despite the lack of an empirical study directly assessing the relation between the likelihood of perceived dismissal in a country and the country's standing on the PCI, a reader may conjuncture a pattern.…”

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A multi-country comparative study of the perceived police disciplinary environments

Ivković

Haberfeld

Wook

et al. 2016

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &Amp; Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test an aspect of the theory of police integrity by exploring the perceived disciplinary threat made by police agencies in Croatia, South Africa, South Korea, and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – A police integrity survey was used to assess perceptions of the expected discipline meted out by police agencies in four countries. Samples of police officers from Croatia, South Africa, South Korea, and the USA evaluated 11 hypothetical scenarios describing various forms of police misconduct. Findings – Bi-variate analyses reveal considerable divergence of perceptions of disciplinary consequences across the four countries. The majority of the respondents in each country expected some discipline for every scenario, but dismissal was expected for very few scenarios. Multivariate models of perceptions of expected discipline show that the country effect remains strong in the majority of the scenarios even in the presence of numerous controls. Research limitations/implications – To accommodate the diversity of legal rules, answers providing disciplinary options were not identical across countries. Some of the samples are representative, while others are convenience samples. Practical implications – The results show that, controlling for societal integrity, organizational variables play a critical role in shaping the respondents’ perceptions of expected discipline. Teaching police officers official rules might be an effective tool toward attaining more accurate perceptions of expected discipline. Originality/value – Police integrity research is dominated by single-country studies; this paper provides an in-depth exploration of perceptions of expected discipline across four countries.

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Police Integrity in Armenia

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Exploring changes in urban, small town and rural policing during the COVID-19 pandemic: does urbanicity matter?

Exploring changes in urban, small town and rural policing during the COVID-19 pandemic: does urbanicity matter?

A comparative study of the police officer views on policing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

A multi-country comparative study of the perceived police disciplinary environments

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