The effect of education on police attitudes

Weiner, Norman L.

doi:10.1016/0047-2352(74)90094-4

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“…Thus, possibly important factors that could influence an individual officer's attitudes, such as department policies on the use of force and city demographic factors, cannot be controlled for. In addition, the predisposition issue raised by Hudzik (1978) and Weiner (1974) is of concern. Individuals who attend college may be different regardless of whether they go to college or not.…”

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“…Weiner (1974) concluded that education level did not affect officer attitudes. He found that officers with more education were no more tolerant or less cynical.…”

Section: College Education and Police Use Of Force Attitudesmentioning

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“…Of course, it is also possible that the new officer socialization process has such an important impact on officer attitudes that education has little impact regardless of time of degree completion (see Van Maanan 1975). In addition the "predisposition issue" raised by Weiner (1974) and others (e.g., see Hudzik 1978;Smith, Locke, and Fenster 1970) makes it important to examine the time of degree acquisition. It could be that officers who receive a college degree before they join the police force are different even before attending college, so a college degree is actually confounded with unmeasured pre-college characteristics.…”

Section: College Education: Time Of Degree Completion and Type Of Degreementioning

confidence: 99%

“…He found that officers with more education were no more tolerant or less cynical. Parker et al (1976) took issue with these conclusions and pointed out that 25 of the 75 relationships Weiner (1974) examined were significant, indicating, at the very least, the modest impact of education.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Higher Education on Police Officer Attitudes toward Abuse of Authority

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2011

Journal of Criminal Justice Education

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This study examines whether the acquisition of a four-year college degree impacts police officer attitudes toward abuse of authority. This research also explores whether level of higher education and the timing of degree completion alter this potential attitudinal impact of a bachelor's degree. Using data from a nationally representative survey sample, the study finds that officers with a pre-service bachelor's degree hold attitudes that are less supportive of abuse of authority, although the effect is fairly small in magnitude. These effects remain regardless of when officers receive their degree and across varying levels of higher education (i.e., associate's degree, attending some college). These findings suggest that higher education has a beneficial impact related to police officer abuse of authority attitudes.

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“…Weiner (1974) concluded that education level did not affect officer attitudes. He found that officers with more education were no more tolerant or less cynical.…”

Section: College Education and Police Use Of Force Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: College Education: Time Of Degree Completion and Type Of Degreementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: College Education and Police Use Of Force Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Higher Education on Police Officer Attitudes toward Abuse of Authority

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2011

Journal of Criminal Justice Education

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“…Past research on the effect of education is quite mixed. Some studies show an impact (Smith, 1978;Cascio, 1977;Roberg, 1978;Heffernan & Lovely, 1991), while others do not (Weiner, 1974;Worden, 1990;Blumberg & Niederhoffer, 1985). The fact that women and not men are influenced by education is a rather unique finding.…”

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Gender and Policing

Eterno

2006

Women & Criminal Justice

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The Compstat model, developed in New York City, is an aggressive, crime-fighting style of policing that has been emulated by numerous police agencies. It is argued that Compstat returns policing to a male-dominated model that may lead to illegal behavior (e.g., unlawful searches and seizures) especially by male officers. This research uses the factorial survey method with a large sample of New York City police officers-234 females out of 1,259-to study similarities and differences between male and female officers' legal behaviors. Although both men and women are influenced by the law, women are more likely to obey legal restrictions in weapon situations.

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A randomized‐response investigation of the education effect in attitudes towards foreigners

Ostapczuk

Musch

Moshagen

2009

Euro J Social Psych

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While negative correlations have often been found between a respondent's education and his attitudes towards foreigners, the reasons for this education effect are still under debate. We examined the hypothesis that the highly educated may not be genuinely less xenophobic, but simply more prone to give socially desirable, xenophile answers in attitude questionnaires. We therefore compared the attitudes of respondents who were either questioned directly or using a cheating detection extension of the randomized-response technique (RRT). The latter is supposed to yield more honest answers to sensitive questions by experimentally offering the interviewee a higher degree of confidentiality. Under direct questioning conditions, we replicated the education effect; 75% of the highly educated expressed xenophile attitudes, as opposed to only 55% of the less educated. Under randomized-response conditions, we obtained significantly reduced estimates of 53% for the proportion of xenophiles among the highly educated, and 24% among the less educated, indicating a strong distortion of self-reported attitudes towards foreigners in both groups. However, a significant proportion of participants disobeyed the RRT instructions regardless of education. Because the education effect was found even after controlling for social desirability, it seems to be a genuine effect, rather than an artefact of a differential response bias.

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The effect of education on police attitudes

Cited by 29 publications

References 6 publications

The Impact of Higher Education on Police Officer Attitudes toward Abuse of Authority

The Impact of Higher Education on Police Officer Attitudes toward Abuse of Authority

Gender and Policing

A randomized‐response investigation of the education effect in attitudes towards foreigners

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