Enhancing Police Integrity

• Main Authors: Klockars, Carl B. (Author), Ivković, Sanja Kutnjak (Author), Haberfeld, M. R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Criminal law.; Criminology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Criminal Law.

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, Nort...

Table of Contents:

• 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.