Saying One Thing, Meaning Another: The Role Of Parables In Police Training
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Research suggests that police recruits come to policing with high ideals and positive ethical standards. Yet as early as the police academy, subtle shifts in recruit attitudes and values occur. By the end of the rookie year, this ethical value shift is almost complete, and it has negative ethical implications. This ethical value shift places many officers in conflict with a number of legal standards and core societal values. Although research has identified these outcomes, there is only limited understanding of the processes that fuel these ethical value shifts. This article presents exploratory research in police socialization processes and identifies process mechanisms that trigger a number of these value shifts. Structural elements in policing training that sustain these mechanisms are analyzed.
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The deleterious impact on integrity is attributed to training content in which recruits are inundated with explicit stories and implicit messages about unethical behavior and attitudes by veteran officers.
“This is attributed to the impact of some of the content of the training, whereby recruits are inundated with explicit stories and implicit messages about unethical behavior and attitudes by veteran officers (Chappell & Lanza-Kaduce, 2010;Ford, 2003).”
From Impact of Police Academy Training on Recruits’ Integrity (2016) · cites this paper as Ford, 2003
The study does not support the hypothesis that the academy experience has a bad influence on recruits' integrity as a consequence of exposure to stories of unethical behavior and attitudes by older police officers.
“At the same time, our study does not support the hypothesis that the academy experience has a bad influence on recruits' integrity, as a consequence of exposure to stories of unethical behavior and attitudes by older police officers (Chappell & Lanza-Kaduce, 2010;Ford, 2003;Garner, 2005).”
From Impact of Police Academy Training on Recruits’ Integrity (2016) · cites this paper as Ford, 2003
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- Authors
- Ford, R. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Central Florida (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ford, Robert E.
- Venue
- Police Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 84-110
- ISSN
- 1098-6111 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-745X
- OpenAlex
- W2027655784
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Police Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Ethics in Business and Education
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Keywords
- police training, parables, police socialization, police cadets, police academy, police ethics, moral disengagement, process mechanism
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