DISTRIBUTIVE INJUSTICE: A PREDICTIVE STUDY OF CORRUPTION AND OFFICE ABUSE AMONG POLICE OFFICERS IN ANAMBRA STATE POLICE COMMAND, NIGERIA

Leonard N. Ezeh, Davis E. O. Ogbeide, Precious R. Ike, Chukwuemeka E. Etodike

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This paper explored the predictive effects of distributive injustice on corruption and office abuse among police officers in Anambra State Police Command. The participants of the study were 294 (two hundred and ninety four) junior cadre police officers (below the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police) who comprised 241 male-police officers and 53 female-police officers. The ages of the police officers ranged from 26 to 47 years, the mean age was 37.51 years with a standard deviation of 2.20. Data for the study was collected with the aid of organizational justice scale by Niehoff and Moorman (1993) and Unethical Behaviour Tendency Scale by Tang and Weatherford (1997). Predictive design and multiple regression analysis were adopted as the design and statistical tool for the study respectively. The result confirmed that both corruption and office abuse dimensions of unethical behaviour were significantly predicted by distributive injustice among junior cadre police officers.

 

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corruption, distributive injustice, Nigerian Police Force, office abuse, unethical behaviour

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