The choice of deontological, virtue ethical, and consequentialist moral reasoning strategies by pre- and in-service police officers in the U.K.: an empirical study

Drawing upon cross-sectional research with pre- and in-service police officers in the U.K. (N = 571), this paper reports on moral reasoning strategies favored by respondents dealing bespoke work-related quandaries specific to professional practice of policing. The dominant form those dilemmas was deontological (rule-based). second most frequently selected strategy virtue ethical. Further analysis data indicated that an undergraduate degree were significantly more likely adopt ethical consequentialist-utilitarian than who did not have degree.