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“A Panel of Good ol’ Boys”: Women Navigating the Police Promotions Process
Women are significantly underrepresented among police supervisors, middle managers, and leaders in the United States. To investigate this problem,...
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If the face fits: predicting future promotions from police cadets’ facial traits
ObjectiveTo evaluate the relationship between police cadets’ facial traits and their subsequent promotional success.
MethodsUsing archival police...
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The Bitter End of Politicized Promotions
This chapter examines the downside of politically influenced police promotions. Also, it studies the importance (in police officers’ perceptions) of...
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“Prison Officers Should Be Treated Fairly”. Perceptions and Experiences of Fairness Among Prison Officers in Ghana
Aristotle argued that we can learn about justice by examining its opposite: injustice. As he posited, “[o]ften one of a pair of contrary states is...
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#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram
This article sets out to investigate the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) on the social media platforms Facebook and...
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Justice and Life Satisfaction Among Indian Police Officers: A Preliminary Study
The concept of organizational justice refers to employee perceptions about whether the employing organization treats workers in a fair and just...
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The organizational reasons for wrongdoing. The case of Italy’s Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM)
Many scholars have highlighted the individual, organizational and inter-organizational causes of organizational wrongdoing; others have focused on...
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The Prison Officer In Post-Soviet Russia
There is a sparsity of research on prison personnel in the Russian Federation, which together, with Turkey, tops the list of European countries for...
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Cynicism Toward Change and Career Stage: An Exploration of Work Environment and Organizational Based Characteristics Among Prison Officers in Ghana
Prison officer cynicism toward change (CTC) has received limited attention in the penal literature. In the global south, there has been very limited...
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Police Training and Educational Reforms Within the Colonial Context of Puerto Rico
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice published a report investigating Puerto Rico’s Police Department (PRPD). The findings highlight that PRPD...
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The Power Game: Organisational Politics and Intrigue
Police scholars have paid limited attention to organisational politics and intrigues within police forces. This chapter analyses the complex web of...
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Tale as Old as Time
To truly comprehend what type of organisation the Garda is, it is also important to understand the context of the current organisation from its...
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A farewell to the lone hero researcher: team research and writing
Criminology have long celebrated the lone hero researcher. Doing and writing up research in solitude has been the key to academic success and...
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Racism in Academia
This chapter explores the pervasive issue of racism in academia and its impact on students and staff. Despite being regarded as bastions of knowledge...
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Women in the Criminal Justice System, Research Methodology, and Case Studies
The women’s and civil rights movements had raised multiple issues of the society, and of course criminal justice system is also one of those...
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The influence and role of cryptoculture on target congruence in cryptocurrency investment behavior: a theoretical model
The unprecedented interest in cryptocurrency-related investments over the past five years has gone from a relatively unknown speculative investment...
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Silence is Golden
The sense of alienationalienation within the organisation’s culture is present on two fronts and can be divided by the general directions in which...
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Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina
The criminal process in the Province of Buenos Aires has been affected by radical reforms in the last decades. Beginning with the complete...
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Why Should We Study Prisoner Victimisation?
In this chapter, attention is drawn to the unsafe nature of the prison setting, a topic long overlooked due to the idea of “ideal victims” in...
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When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome
The judicial operation “mondo di mezzo” (middle-world) revealed in 2014 the existence of a criminal network in Rome, dubbed Mafia capitale. Its main...
