Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73529 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2010-05
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Department of Public Finance, Innsbruck
Abstract: 
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that more effective cooperation between units, a higher trust in the work partner (social capital), a higher level of interactional justice and a higher level of work-life-balance substantially reduces police officers' intentions to quit. On the other hand, high levels of physical and psychological strain and the experience of traumatic events were not correlated with the intentions to quit the department These findings suggest that police officers accept high levels of stress as inherent to the job of policing.
Subjects: 
Quit Intentions
Turnover Rates
Job Satisfaction
Stress
Police Officers
Work-Life Balance
Fairness
Acceptance
JEL: 
I1
I12
I31
J24
J81
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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