Procedural justice concerns and support for BWCs: turning the lens to officer perceptions
Policing: An International Journal
ISSN: 1363-951X
Article publication date: 30 May 2019
Issue publication date: 22 July 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore factors that drive officer support for body-worn cameras (BWCs).
Design/methodology/approach
Results of an officer perceptions survey completed as part of an evaluation of the Chicago Police Department’s BWC project are presented. The influence of treatment- and outcome-oriented justice concerns on officer support for BWCs is explored with a variety of covariates.
Findings
Outcome-oriented concerns are a significant predictor of officer support for BWCs, while treatment-oriented concerns are not.
Practical implications
The research enhances understandings of the applicability of procedural justice theorizing in policing generally, and offers direction important to the meaningful use of BWCs.
Originality/value
This finding runs counter to dominant relational models of procedural justice that concentrate on the perspective of subordinates, but lends support to arguments advocating the centrality of role (authority vs subordinate) in the formation of justice evaluations.
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Citation
Saulnier, A., St Louis, E. and McCarty, W. (2019), "Procedural justice concerns and support for BWCs: turning the lens to officer perceptions", Policing: An International Journal, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 671-687. https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-09-2018-0137
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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