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Police Corruption in Thirty Agencies in the United States, 1997 / Carl B. Klockars.
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- Datafile
- Series:
- ICPSR (Series) ; 2629.
- ICPSR ; 2629
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- ICPSR Version, 2005-11-04.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- This study examined police officers' perceptions of and tolerance for corruption. In contrast to the popular viewpoint that police corruption is a result of moral defects in the individual police officer, this study investigated corruption from an organizational viewpoint. The approach examined the ways rules are communicated to officers, how rules are enforced by supervisors, including sanctions for violation of ethical guidelines, the unspoken code against reporting the misconduct of a fellow officer, and the influence of public expectations about police behavior. For the survey, a questionnaire describing 11 hypothetical scenarios of police misconduct was administered to 30 police agencies in the United States. Specifically, officers were asked to compare the violations in terms of seriousness and to assess the level of sanctions each violation of policies and procedures both should and would likely receive. For each instance of misconduct, officers were asked about the extent to which they supported agency discipline for it and their willingness to report it. Scenarios included issues such as off-duty private business, free meals, bribes for speeding, free gifts, stealing, drinking on duty, and use of excessive force. Additional information was collected about the officers' personal characteristics, such as length of time in the police force (in general and at their agency), the size of the agency, and the level of rank the officer held.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02629
- Contents:
- Part 1: Data File
- Notes:
- Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.
- OCLC:
- 61147606
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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