| Police scholars attribute the presence of police corruption to a variety of factors including individual characteristics, organizational correlates, and systemic conditions. Most research investigating the determinants of police corruption focuses upon urban police agencies in developed nations, primarily the United States. Only recently has attention turned to less developed nations. In addition, current research addresses only the Rotten Apple and Rotten Barrel hypotheses; none have tested the Rotten Orchard hypothesis of police corruption comparatively.;This study reports the findings of research on police perceptions of corruption in three developing Caribbean nations. A conceptual model is created based upon current developed nation literature specifying the relationships between individual and organizational factors and police corruption as measured through a self-administered survey. The comparison is made among three divergent nations, and thus a third level of analysis is included: governmental corruption. The findings suggest determinants of police corruption are similar in some respects and different in others between developing and developed nations. |
