Traditional Police Culture, Use of Force, and Procedural Justice: Investigating Individual, Organizational, and Contextual Factors

Silver, Jasmine R.; Roche, Sean Patrick; Bilach, Thomas J.; Ryon, Stephanie Bontrager

doi:10.1080/07418825.2017.1381756

Cited by 71 publications

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“…Relatedly, the broader policing literature notes that department‐level factors influence officer views (Paoline et al, ; Silver et al, ) and here we see that results are sensitive to minor department‐level and temporal differences. More cross‐departmental research on the influence of departmental policies and culture on officer behavior would help to explain why findings often do not replicate, while also identifying factors that can improve community–police relationships among other issues.…”

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“…As is true with survey‐based studies of police officers more broadly (Nix et al, ), studies on officer support for community policing largely sample from a single department. Yet, department‐level factors may have more influence than individual‐level factors on officer support for policies and practices such as community policing, which could limit generalizability from a single‐agency study (Paoline, Myers, & Worden, ; Silver, Roche, Bilach, & Bontrager Ryon, ). If department‐level factors drive officer views, then we should not see much within‐department variation in both support for community policing and experience with it.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Why do officers support community policing? A cross‐departmental and cross‐temporal comparison

Shupard

Kearns

2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Community policing is often seen as a way to repair fractured relationships between law enforcement and the public. Despite its relationship-building promise and widespread department-level adoption, individual officers show varying levels of support for community policing which can harm policy implementation. Why are some officers more supportive of community policing than others?Prior research suggests that demographic factors such as the officer's gender, race, age, and education can explain this variance. Across these studies, however, there are several contradicting or non-replicating findings. Conflicting findings may result from differences by department or differences in methodology or temporal variancebut most policing studies focus on a single department. We begin to adjudicate between the possible explanations for conflicting findings using roll-call survey data from 741 officers across three neighboring police departments in 2016 and then a replication with 452 officers from one of the original departments in 2019. We find that experience with community policing consistently influences support for the practice while officer gender, age, and education consistently do not. Other results do not replicate across department or time, although we do find non-replicating significant factors associated with officer support for community policing. Our findings also suggest that departmental and temporal aspects help to explain why policing studies often do not replicate or generalize to other places or contexts.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 77%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why do officers support community policing? A cross‐departmental and cross‐temporal comparison

Shupard

Kearns

2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…These technological changesand the accompanying media attention-might have made police more cautious in how they interact with the public. Police officers, however, continue to be socialized into an occupational culture that emphasizes danger and suspicion toward the public (Sierra-Arévalo, 2016;Silver, Roche, Bilach, & Bontrager Ryon, 2017). As a result, police violence remains a regular occurrence.…”

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Race and the Association Between Police Stops and Depression Among Young Adults: A Research Note

Baćak

Nowotny

2018

Race and Justice

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Police stops are stressful experiences that may be harmful for health. The present study examines the association between police stops and symptoms of depression in the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health. The study sample included non-Hispanic Black ( n = 2,118) and White ( n = 5,629) adults aged 18–26 years surveyed in 1996 and 2001/2002. Both Black and White young adults who have been stopped by police had more symptoms of depression compared to their never stopped counterparts. Among Blacks, the association was attenuated but persisted after controlling for criminal behavior and justice contact. In contrast, among Whites, the association between police stops and depression was smaller in magnitude, and it was explained by self-reported criminal behavior. Given the frequency and the number of people in contact with police, we point to the need to sensitize police departments to potential mental health consequences of proactive policing, and the decreased willingness of the public to seek police help as a result of previous distressing encounters.

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“…From this perspective, misconduct happens because specific individuals violate the primary function of policing itself; such officers are seen as "deviants" and believed to represent a small fraction of police. At the organizational level, the bad-institutions approach focuses on top-down features of the department, including authoritarian police culture; organizational features of police departments, such as officer diversity and hiring practices; and the racist and racialized history of policing (Silver et al 2017;Huff, White, and Decker 2018;Ray, Ortiz, and Nash 2018). Some scholars have even argued that policing is designed as a means to control marginalized groups and maintain white supremacy (Soss and Weaver 2017).…”

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The Network Structure of Police Misconduct

Wood

Roithmayr

Papachristos

2019

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Conventional explanations of police misconduct generally adopt a microlevel focus on deviant officers or a macrolevel focus on the top-down organization of police departments. Between these levels are social networks of misconduct. This study recreates these networks using data on 16,503 complaints and 15,811 police officers over a six-year period in Chicago. We examine individual-level factors associated with receiving a complaint, the basic properties of these misconduct networks, and factors related to officer co-naming in complaints. We find that the incidence of police misconduct is associated with attributes including race, age, and tenure and that almost half of police officers are connected in misconduct ties in broader networks of misconduct. We also find that certain dyadic factors, especially seniority and race, strongly predict network ties and the incidence of group misconduct. Our results provide actionable information regarding possible ways to leverage the co-complaint network structure to reduce misconduct.

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Traditional Police Culture, Use of Force, and Procedural Justice: Investigating Individual, Organizational, and Contextual Factors

Cited by 71 publications

References 110 publications

Why do officers support community policing? A cross‐departmental and cross‐temporal comparison

Why do officers support community policing? A cross‐departmental and cross‐temporal comparison

Race and the Association Between Police Stops and Depression Among Young Adults: A Research Note

The Network Structure of Police Misconduct

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