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WHY DO GOOD COPS DEFEND BAD COPS?*
Author(s) -
Benoît JeanPierre,
Dubra Juan
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.658
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1468-2354
pISSN - 0020-6598
DOI - 10.1111/j.0020-6598.2004.00287.x
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , law , business , law and economics , political science , psychology , economics , computer science , library science
Policemen are known to support colleagues who are the subject of criminal investigations. Although we might expect guilty officers to defend each other, why do (otherwise) law‐abiding policemen defend those who have broken the law? We investigate under what conditions it is in the interest of a group to defend its “bad” members.