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Matthew C. Matusiak researches law enforcement in the United States, focusing on organizational dynamics, demographics, and officer behavior. His work has examined the impact of new leadership on police institutions and the factors influencing the representation of women and minorities within law enforcement agencies. Matusiak has also investigated the relationships within police departments, including canine/handler dynamics and their effect on well-being and stress. His research draws on a mixed-methods approach to understand complex issues within the law enforcement environment.
His publications include analyses of chief assessments of changes in the police institutional environment, correlates of female and minority representation among U.S. law enforcement agencies, and the roles of organizational structure in achieving female supervisory representation. Matusiak also explores the institutionalization of the police executive environment and shifts in executive demographics as reflected in line-level officers. His work contributes to understanding police officer behavior and organizational change within the field.
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- h-index: 10
- Publications: 26
- Citations: 292
Selected Publications
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Resurrecting Individual Differences: Toward a Theory of Police Officer Behavior (2026)
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Shifting law enforcement executive demographics: reflections in line-level officers (2025)
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- Ferguson as a distal crisis: Chief assessments of changes in the police institutional environment
- Resurrecting Individual Differences: Toward a Theory of Police Officer Behavior
- Crossing the Threshold: Organizational and Community Correlates of Female and Minority Representation Among U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies
- Achieving female supervisory representation in US law enforcement agencies: The roles of organizational structure, practice, and context
- “The teeth which are together are the ones which bite the most”: Sensemaking, interpersonal ranger relations, and organisational identification in Ugandan protected areas
- “The teeth which are together are the ones which bite the most”: Sensemaking, interpersonal ranger relations, and organisational identification in Ugandan protected areas
- “The teeth which are together are the ones which bite the most”: Sensemaking, interpersonal ranger relations, and organisational identification in Ugandan protected areas
- “The teeth which are together are the ones which bite the most”: Sensemaking, interpersonal ranger relations, and organisational identification in Ugandan protected areas
- Ferguson as a distal crisis: Chief assessments of changes in the police institutional environment
- Canine/handler relationships: a descriptive mixed-methods analysis of handlers' well-being and stress
- Canine/handler relationships: a descriptive mixed-methods analysis of handlers' well-being and stress
- Shifting law enforcement executive demographics: reflections in line-level officers
- Resurrecting Individual Differences: Toward a Theory of Police Officer Behavior
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