The reasons for choosing a career in policing among South Korean police cadets

✍ Scribed by Byongook Moon; Eui-Gab Hwang

• Book ID: 104021243
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 125 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0047-2352
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.02.002

✦ Synopsis

Despite the importance of understanding the reasons for choosing the police as an occupation for developing effective recruiting strategies, there is a surprising lack of research about what motivates people to choose careers in policing in South Korea. Employing the sample of 410 Korean police cadets, the study found that a financial factor -''steady salary'' and ''job security'' -was the most important factor affecting the decisions of police cadets to join the police. Regression analyses indicated that gender and social-economic status had significant effects on cadets' motivation of joining the police. In the conclusion, policy implications for developing an effective recruitment strategy are discussed.