Michael E. Meyer

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the contribution of the public component of Klockars' and Kutnjak-Ivkovic's organizational theory of police integrity to the understanding of policing integrity.

TL;DR: In this article, the institutional response of a midsized Midwestern police department to a perceived growing problem with youth gang activity is explored, and individual and organizational-level variables that provide justification for creating and sustaining the existence of a Gang Suppression Unit (GSU).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on several detective groups in the South African Police Service's Gauteng province in order to determine the existence of the groupthink phenomenon and found that groups of South African police Service detectives with high internal group cohesion, low external group respect, low organizational security and directive leadership would lead to ineffective decision making during an escalation dilemma task.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on an examination of South African Police Service (SAPS) recruits for indicators evincing the presence of the police culture theme of isolation, and they also seek to determine if the presence is gender neutral and whether indicators of social isolation change over the period of basic recruit training as well as during the first period of encounter, field training.