The Contours of Police Integrity

Carl B. Klockars is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at the University of Delaware. A criminologist of more than thirty years experience, Prof. Klockars is the author of five books, more than fifty scholarly articles, and numerous professional papers. He has served as nationally-elected vice-president of the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and was three times elected by the members of the American Society of Criminology to serve on its Executive Board. He has also served as a lobbyist for the Maryland Sheriffs Association and as an expert witness in cases alleging police misconduct. Prof. Klockars has been a pioneer in building collaborative research relationships between police and academics. He has written extensively on professional crime, criminological theory, the moral dilemmas of policing and police use of force. With colleagues he has recently completed a study with police agencies in Charleston, S.C., Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., and St. Petersburg, FL that seeks to understand the mechanisms through which police agencies may create organizational environments that enhance and encourage integrity.

The Contours of Police Integrity is the only book that examines police corruption and police integrity across cultures. Editors Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, and M. R. Haberfeld begin with an introduction to the issues surroun

Chapter 1. Contours of Police IntegrityChapter 2. Ethics and the Police: Studying Police Integrity in Austria - Maximilian Edelbacher and Sanja Kutnjak IvkovichChapter 3. Determinants of Police Officers¿ Reluctance or Compliance to Report: Misconduct and Corruption among Fellow Officers, the Case of Quebec - Marc AlainChapter 4. Police Integrity in Croatia - Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich and Carl B. KlockarsChapter 5. Policing Integrity: Britain¿s Thin Blue Line - Louise WestmarlandChapter 6. Sustaining Police Integrity in Finland - Anne Puonti, Sami Vuorinen, Sanja Kutnjak IvkovichChapter 7. Police Integrity in Hungary: How Are Police Able to Adapt to Transition? - Ferenc KrémerChapter 8. Police Integrity in Japan - David T. JohnsonChapter 9. Integrity Perceptions And Investigations: The Netherlands - M. Punch, L.W.J.C. Huberts & M.E.D. LambooChapter 10. Police Misconduct: the Pakistani Paradigm - Zubair Nawaz Chattha and Sanja Kutnjak IvkovichChapter 11. The Heritage of Police Misconduct: The Case of the Polish Police - M. R. HaberfeldChapter 12. Police Integrity in Slovenia - Milan Pagon and Branko LobnikarChapter 13. ¿Out of Step.¿ Integrity and the South African Police Service - Gareth NewhamChapter 14. Homogeneity in Moral Standards in the Swedish Police Culture - Marie Torstensson-Levander and Börje EkenvallChapter 15. Police Integrity in the United States of America. - Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, M. R. HaberfeldIndex