Police misconduct : a reader for the 21st century / Michael J. Palmiotto, [editor].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmiotto, Michael J.

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police misconduct--United States.

Police misconduct.

Police corruption.

United States.

Police brutality--United States.

Police brutality.

Police corruption--United States.

Police administration--United States.

Police administration.

Physical Description:

ix, 485 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2001.

Summary:

"Police Misconduct" is a valuable and much-needed primary or supplementary text, and can be used in courses such as Community Policing, Police and Society, and Special Topics in Policing

Contents:

1. Legal Authority of Police / Vincent J. Palmiotto 3

2. Police as Symbols of Government and Justice / Alison McKenney Brown 15

3. Police Misconduct: What is it? / Michael J. Palmiotto 32

4. Should We Tell the Police to Say "Yes" to Gratuities? / Richard R.E. Kania 42

5. Police Misconduct and Minority Citizens: Exploring Key Issues / Kim Michelle Lersch 58

2 Crimes Committed by Police Officers 73

6. Parameters of Police Misconduct / William D. Hyatt 75

7. Police Perceptions and the Norming of Institutional Corruption / Robert J. McCormack 100

8. Police Corruption and Criminal Monopoly: Victimless Crimes / David E. Sisk 109

9. Historical Perspective of Police Corruption in New York City / Sean Grennan 117

10. Drug Related Police Corruption: The Miami Experience / Kim Michelle Lersch 132

11. To Serve and Pursue: Exploring Police Sexual Violence Against Women / Peter B. Kraska, Victor E. Kappeler 145

12. Crimes Committed by Police Officers / Michael L. Birzer 168

3 Physical Abuse by Police Officers 183

13. The Police Officer's Ethical Use of Force / James D. Sewell, Ph.D 185

14. Accidents, Icons, and Indexing: The Dynamics of News Coverage of Police Use of Force / Regina G. Lawrence 198

15. How Police Justify the Use of Deadly Force / William B. Waegel 217

16. The Abner Louima Case: Idiosyncratic Personal Crime or Symptomatic Police Brutality? / Richard G. Frey 232

17. Criminal Law

The Right to Run: Deadly Force and the Fleeing Felon. Tennessee v. Gardner, 105 S. Ct. 1694 (1985) / Michael D. Greathouse 243

18. Factors Related to Killings of Felons by Police Officers: A Test of the Community Violence and Conflict Hypotheses / Jonathan R. Sorensen, James W. Marquart, Deon E. Brock 256

19. Technological Innovation and the Development of Less-Than-Lethal Force Options / Robert F. Scott, Ph.D, Michael P.Copeland, J.D. 276

20. Police Pursuits and the Use of Force: Recognizing and Managing "The Pucker Factor"

A Research Note / Geoffrey P. Alpert, Dennis Jay Kenney, Roger Dunham 291

21. The Most Deadly Force: Police Pursuits / Geoffrey P. Alpert, Patrick R. Anderson 304

22. The Other Deadly Force: An Analysis of One State's High-Speed Pursuit Guidelines / Donald R. Liddick 316

4 Police Accountability 325

23. Morality in Law Enforcement: Chasing "Bad Guys" with the Los Angeles Police Department / Steve Herbert 327

24. Can Police Recruiting Control Police Misconduct? / Michael J. Palmiotto 344

25. Law Enforcement: Policing the Defective Centurion

Decertification and Beyond / William C. Smith, Geoffrey P. Alpert 355

26. What's Wrong with Complaint Investigations? Dealing with Difference Differently in Complaints Against Police / Andrew J. Goldsmith 367

27. Internal Affairs: The Police Agencies' Approach to the Investigation of Police Misconduct / Ronald R. Thrasher 396

28. Civilian Oversight of Police Behavior / Ronald M. Fletcher 409

29. An Analysis of Section 1983 Litigation Dealing with Police Misconduct / William Bickel 415

30. Police Civil Liability: An Analysis of Section 1983 Actions in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York / David K. Chiabi 428

31. Preventing Excessive Force Litigation / James F. Anderson, Laronistine Dyson, Jerald Burns 444

32. Police Abuse: Can the Violence be Contained? / David Rudovsky 452.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

0130256048

OCLC:

44633057