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Record Nr.

UNINA9910698115303321

Autore

Klockars Carl B

Titolo

Enhancing police integrity / / Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic, M.R. Haberfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht, : Springer, 2006

ISBN

1-280-95761-1

9786610957613

0-387-36956-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Kutnjak IvkovicSanja <1965->

HaberfeldM. R <1957-> (Maria R.)

Disciplina

363.2/2

Soggetti

Police ethics - United States

Police corruption - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Idea of Police Integrity -- Measuring Police Integrity -- Profiles of Integrity -- The Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department -- The Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Police Department -- The St. Petersburg, Florida, Police Department -- The Second Survey -- Recruitment, Selection, and Training -- Processing Citizen Complaints -- Meting out the Discipline -- Circumscribing the Code of Silence -- Enhancing Police Integrity.

Sommario/riassunto

How can we enhance police integrity? The authors surveyed over 3000 police officers from 30 U.S. police departments on how they would respond to typical scenarios where integrity is challenged. They studied three police agencies which scored highly on the integrity scale: Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; and St. Petersburg, Florida. The authors conclude that enhancing police integrity goes well beyond culling out "bad apple" police officers. Police administrators should focus on four aspects: organizational rulemaking; detecting, investigating and disciplining rule violations; circumscribing the informal "code of silence" that prohibits police from reporting the misconduct of their colleagues; and understanding the influence of public expectations and agency history.