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Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward Citizen Advisory Councils, Justin Nix, Scott E. Wolfe, Brandon Tregle
Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward Citizen Advisory Councils, Justin Nix, Scott E. Wolfe, Brandon Tregle
Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the antecedents of sheriff deputies’ perceived legitimacy of their agency’s citizen advisory council (CAC).
Design/methodology/approach
The authors obtained survey data from 567 sheriff deputies in a southeastern state. The authors first asked whether respondents knew their agency had a CAC, and then asked those who responded affirmatively a series of questions about the legitimacy of the council. The authors then ran an ordinary least squares regression that included organizational justice, self-legitimacy and public scrutiny as independent variables predicting perceived legitimacy of the CAC.
Findings
Deputies who perceived greater organizational justice from …
Management-Level Officers’ Experiences With The Ferguson Effect, Justin Nix, Scott E. Wolfe
Management-Level Officers’ Experiences With The Ferguson Effect, Justin Nix, Scott E. Wolfe
Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors associated with management-level officers’ sensitivity to various manifestations of the “Ferguson effect.”
Design/methodology/approach
A survey was administered to police officers attending an advanced training institute in the Southeastern USA in the fall of 2015. Specifically, a series of items first inquired about negative attitudes attributable to deadly force incidents throughout the country, followed by items tapping into theoretically relevant concepts including self-legitimacy, audience legitimacy, and peer attachment.
Findings
Findings suggest that like line-level officers, police managers may also harbor various attitudes attributable to a Ferguson effect – including less …