 Reform, defund or do not touch? Exploring factors affecting the demand for organizational change in law enforcementAhmet Guler and Ismail Onat Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024, vol. 93, issue C Abstract: The present study examined the corelates of individuals` varying attitudes towards reforming American law enforcement. Building on previous research, we hypothesized that such demand among American adults may result from their fear of police brutality, the quality of relationship between the police and minorities, the role of media news, political views, and other demographic factors. Three concepts (i.e., reforming the police, defunding the police, or maintaining the status quo) were employed to measure reform attitudes. Analyses of survey data indicated that the three proposals do not have identical predictors. While fear of police brutality and political views were significant predictors of all three attitudes across the models, with opposing effects on maintaining the status quo, belonging to a minority group and exposure to news media had no significant effect on support for defunding or reforming the police. The results of the study were discussed, and its policy implications were considered. Keywords: Police reform; Defunding the police; Fear of police brutality; Police-minority relations (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jcjust:v:93:y:2024:i:c:s0047235224000497 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102200 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Criminal Justice is currently edited by Matthew DeLisi More articles in Journal of Criminal Justice from Elsevier |
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