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  • Promoting a culture of fairness: police training, procedural justice, and compliance

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    Author(s)
    Sargeant, E
    Antrobus, E
    Platz, D
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Sargeant, Elise B.
    Year published
    2017
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    Objectives: Academics and practitioners alike are concerned about the potential “double-edged sword” of procedural justice. In the organizational context, procedural justice is expected to increase compliance with supervisors. However, blind, unthinking, or “hard” compliance with supervisors, may lead to anti-organizational behavior and misconduct. The present study examines the moderating effect of a police recruit cultural training program on the relationship between procedural justice and compliance with police supervisors. We expect that providing cultural training will moderate the relationship between procedural justice ...
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    Objectives: Academics and practitioners alike are concerned about the potential “double-edged sword” of procedural justice. In the organizational context, procedural justice is expected to increase compliance with supervisors. However, blind, unthinking, or “hard” compliance with supervisors, may lead to anti-organizational behavior and misconduct. The present study examines the moderating effect of a police recruit cultural training program on the relationship between procedural justice and compliance with police supervisors. We expect that providing cultural training will moderate the relationship between procedural justice and “hard” compliance. Methods: Participants were police recruits at the Queensland Police Academy who were randomly assigned to an experimental (Voice 4 Values) or control condition (business-as-usual training) upon entry into the academy. Recruits in both groups were surveyed pre- and post- training to capture perceptions of procedural justice and compliance with supervisors. Results: Results suggest that procedural justice mattered less for predicting “hard” or unthinking compliance among the recruits who received the Voice 4 Values cultural training package, compared to those who did not receive the training. Conclusions: We conclude that while procedural justice may be of interest to policing organizations, it is important that it is not used as a tool to encourage unthinking compliance. We find cultural training reduces the effect of procedural justice on unthinking or “hard” compliance.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Experimental Criminology
    Volume
    13
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-017-9296-0
    Copyright Statement
    © 2017 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Experimental Criminology, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp 347–365, 2017. Journal of Experimental Criminology is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
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    Criminology
    Police administration, procedures and practice
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/350068
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