Full Description
Based on personal experience and academic research, Tom Baker shines a light on the dark side of American policing by examining misconduct and corruption as occupational and workplace forms of deviance. This textbook outlines patterns of rule breaking and criminal behavior and provides strategies for management and control. This book offers a critical analysis of American policing in the twenty-first century. It is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice, criminology, justice studies, sociology, and public administration.
Contents
Part I: The Genesis
Preface: Looking in the Rear View Mirror
First Attempt at Police Deviance Classification
Intersection of Occupational and Organizational Factors: Workplace Setting
Policing's Dark Side
Chapter 1: Overview of Police Deviance
Introduction
Local American Policework Misconduct, Malfeasance, and Homicide
Police Misconduct is a Social Justice Issue
American Police Reform
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Chapter 2: Policing's Paradox
Evolution of Policing
The Development of American Policing
Code of Ethics Violated from the Beginning
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Part II: Types and Patterns of Police Deviance: Police Misconduct
Chapter 3: Police Sexual Misconduct: The Sleazy Blue Line
Police Sexual Misconduct: The Sleazy Blue Line
Typology of American Police Sexual Misconduct
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Chapter 4: Police Misconduct: Police Lying
Opening Vignette: Justice Game
Police Lying is Normal Police Behavior
Police Lying in Historical Context
American Policing and Police Lying
Categories of Police Lies
Dealing With Cops with Known Credibility Problems
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Chapter 5: Wrongful Convictions: False Confessions and Official Misconduct
False Confessions Resulting from Police Torture
The American Accusatory Interrogation System: Through the Guilt-Presumptive Lens
Wrongful Convictions
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Chapter 6: Expanding Police Misconduct: Misuse of Confidential Information, Identity Theft, and Stealing Time
Misuse of Confidential Information
American Crime Sharing Database Misuse
Identity Theft by Law Enforcement Officers
Police Misconduct: Stealing Time
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Part III: Police Corruption and Criminal Law Enforcement Officers: Malfeasance
Chapter 7: Rule Breaking Cops: Malfeasance
Patterns of Police Corruption
Conclusion
Discussion Question
Chapter 8: Criminal Cops: When the Bad Guys Wear Badges
A Brief History of American Criminal Cops
Police Graft in America: The Beginning
American Systematic Police Corruption and Crime in the 1970s and 1980s
What is the Nature and Extent of American Police Crimes?
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Chapter 9: BTTB Killer Cops and Criminal Cop Drug Dealers
Criminal Cops: An Historical Fact
National and International Police Occupational Problems
Killer Cops: Law Enforcement-caused Homicides
Drug-Related Criminal Cops
Conclusion: What Do We Know, If Anything, about Criminal Cops
Discussion Questions
Chapter 10: Federal and Corrections Law Enforcement Occupational or Workplace Deviance
Corrections Agencies and Corrections Officers
Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
Discussion Questions
Chapter 11: Twenty-First Century American Policing
American Policework Occupation
Twenty-First Century American Policing Behavior
Déjà Vu all over Again
Conclusion
References
Index
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