RT Article
T1 Support for Democratic Policing Among Frontline Police Officers: the Role of Social Dominance Orientation
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 64
IS 2
SP 434
OP 451
A1 Davis, Jill
A2 Baluran, Darwin
A2 Hassan, Shahidul
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882175174
AB Motivated by emerging research that connects officer psychological orientations to policing outcomes, we examine how Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), i.e. preference for group-based social hierarchy, is related to officer attitudes toward democratic policing practices. Analysing survey data collected from officers in a state-level police organization in the United States, we find that high SDO officers are more willing to use force and less willing to report peer misconduct than low SDO officers. High SDO officers are also less supportive of procedurally fair policing practices. These findings contribute to research on factors that may inhibit officer support for democratic policing. We discuss the implications of these results for organizational efforts to inculcate democratic values among frontline officers.
K1 SDO
K1 democratic policing
K1 procedural fairness
K1 Police misconduct
K1 Use of force
DO 10.1093/bjc/azad029