Understanding Police Misconduct Correlates: Does Gender Matter in Predicting Career-Ending Misconduct?

Decades of research on police misconduct have produced mixed findings related to risk and protective factors. Although misconduct is a relatively rare and predominantly male phenomenon, demographic characteristics such as sex could provide context to better understand the influence of these factors...

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Autor principal: Gaub, Janne E. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2020
En: Women & criminal justice
Año: 2020, Volumen: 30, Número: 4, Páginas: 264-289
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Sumario:Decades of research on police misconduct have produced mixed findings related to risk and protective factors. Although misconduct is a relatively rare and predominantly male phenomenon, demographic characteristics such as sex could provide context to better understand the influence of these factors in predicting misconduct. Using a large sample (N = 3,085) of matched police officers in the New York Police Department and a split-sample analysis testing equality of coefficients, this study identifies how common predictors of police misconduct operate differently for men and women.
ISSN:1541-0323
DOI:10.1080/08974454.2019.1605561