NCJ Number
125967
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 13 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1990) Pages: 26-32
Date Published
1990
Length
7 pages
Annotation
A study was conducted among 507 police recruits to examine the relationship between arrest decisions and various personality and demographic variables.
Abstract
Subjects were required to estimate the probability that they would arrest the offender(s) involved in descriptions of 12 offenses. Results did not support the conceptualization of arrest style as a unidimensional predisposition. Authoritarianism, ethnocentrism, age, sex, and IQ were found to be related to arrest decisions for some offenses, but not for others. Possible reasons for the selective nature of these relationships are discussed. 2 tables, 28 references, and 1 appendix. (Publisher abstract)