Constrained but not transformed: Civilian-led certification reform and officer misconduct

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dc.contributor.authorLanigan, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorKalin, Ilker
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-04T07:02:03Z
dc.date.available2026-05-04T07:02:03Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.descriptionIn: Political Research Quarterly. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2026. ISSN 1065-9129. Vol. 79, no. 1 (2026), pp. 110-125.
dc.description.abstractIn the wake of national protests against police violence, Massachusetts established a civilian-led certification regime to institutionalize external oversight of law enforcement. This study evaluates the short-term behavioral effects of that reform on officers with documented histories of misconduct. Leveraging the alphabetically phased rollout of recertification, we use a natural experiment and difference-in-differences design to estimate the causal impact of POST participation. While our quantitative analysis does not reveal sweeping changes in the frequency of officer misconduct, it uncovers suggestive evidence of behavioral recalibration: officers appear less likely to engage in misconduct at all following exposure to external review. To contextualize these findings, we draw on semi-structured interviews with officers, supervisors, and oversight officials. These interviews reveal how officers often reject the legitimacy of POST while simultaneously adjusting behavior in response to reputational risk and the threat of sanction. Taken together, the results suggest that externally adjudicated, procedurally binding reforms can induce modest, short-term behavioral change through instrumental compliance.
dc.description.sponsorshipVAIA 09I03-03-V04-00609 MICRO-SCOPE: Unraveling Micro-Foundations of Challenges to Democracy through the Applications of Smart Repression and Polarization Horizon 2020 101000385 Variation in Institutional Oversight of Police Misconduct
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/10659129251382162
dc.identifier.issn1065-9129
dc.identifier.issn1938-274X
dc.identifier.urihttps://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/1450
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications : Thousand Oaks
dc.rightsCC BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. International
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectpolicajné pochybenie
dc.subjectpolice misconduct
dc.subjectreforma certifikácie
dc.subjectcertification reform
dc.subjectcivilný dohľad
dc.subjectcivilian oversight
dc.titleConstrained but not transformed: Civilian-led certification reform and officer misconduct
dc.typeArticle
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article

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