How police organizational structure correlates with frontline officers' attitudes toward corruption: A multilevel model

Police Practice and Research

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 386-401

  Lee, Hoon ^a   Lim, Hyeyoung ^b   Moore, Debra D ^c   Kim, Jeonglim ^c  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Code of Silence; deviant subculture; discipline; hierarchical linear modeling; police corruption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885406429     PISSN: 15614263     EISSN: 1477271X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2011.635483     Document Type: Article

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