RELATION OF POLICE MISCONDUCT TO AUTHORITARIANISM

This study was conducted to determine whether authoritarianism and clo sely related personality traits such as conformity and value orthodoxy predict police misconduct. Law enforcement officers in the United Sta tes completed the Short-Form Dogmatism Scale and Jackson Personality I nventory. They also completed a self-report survey that recorded acts of misconduct for which they had been disciplined. Stepwise regression revealed 13% of the variance was explained by the variables responsib ility and organization from the Jackson Personality Inventory. Authori tarianism, as measured by the Short-Form Dogmatism Scale, and closely related variables did not enter the equation as predictor variables.