This dissertation is an exploration into the attitudes of National Thai police cadets toward police corruption in Thailand. The dependent variable of the study is the cadets' stated willingness to engage in police corruption. The main objective of this dissertation is to assess factors associated with the likelihood of cadets engaging in police corruption in the future. The methodology employed in the study is survey research. Data for the study have been collected by questionnaires distributed to all members of the National Thai Police Academy (1189 cadets) during the period June-July 1990. / Hypotheses based on four different perspectives on police corruption:--the police subculture perspective, the police cynicism perspective, the deterrence perspective, and the normative perspective were proposed to explain police corruption. It was hypothesized that both exposure to police subculture and police cynicism should be positively associated with the cadets' likelihood of engaging in corruption, and deterrence and norm (belief in the wrongfulness of such behavior) should have negative relationships with police corruption. / According to the results of a multiple regression analysis, two perspectives, the police cynicism perspective and the normative perspective, provided significant explanatory variables predicting willingness to engage in police corruption. Police cynicism showed a positive relationship with cadets' stated likelihood of engaging in police corruption. The normative perspective also proved to be significant to the understanding of attitudes toward corruption. The results of the study indicated an inverse association between conception of wrongfulness and the likelihood of engaging in police corruption. The study's results did not support the police subculture perspective. Police subculture did not show a positive relationship with cadets' stated willingness of engaging in police corruption. The deterrence perspective also failed to gain empirical support as an explanation of police corruption. None of the four deterrence variables showed significant negative relationships with police corruption as expected. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06, Section: A, page: 2279. / Major Professor: Leroy C. Gould. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76436 |
| Contributors | Savestanan, Naras., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 147 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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