The Contours of Police Integrity

The Contours of Police Integrity presents a comprehensive overview of the potential for police misconduct worldwide. A topic of great concern around the world, the top criminal justice scholars have compiled survey and case data from 10 countries chronicling police integrity and misconduct.

Police misconduct is a topic of great concern worldwide. However, the causes of police corruption are remarkably different. Understanding the unique political, historical, legal, and economic institutions of a country is essential in identifying the potential for police misconduct. Police misconduct is a topic of great concern worldwide. However, the causes of police corruption are remarkably different. Understanding the unique political, historical, legal, and economic institutions of a country is essential in identifying the potential for police misconduct.

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 surrounding police integrity, followed by chapters that focus on the critical cultural, political, and historical conditions that influence police conduct in fourteen different countries. Based on the largest systematic survey of police integrity ever conducted, this innovative text illustrates how officers in different cultures regard various types of corruption, how severely they think transgressions should be punished, and how willing they are to come forward to report infractions.

Key Features

• Essays written by top criminal justice academics in each country
• Survey information from nations as diverse as Austria, Croatia, England, Pakistan, Japan, and the United States
• The opinions of nearly 14,000 police officers worldwide
• An instrument for determining the potential for police misconduct

Designed as a supplemental text for police administration and management, ethics in criminal justice, comparative criminal justice, and comparative policing courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level, The Contours of Police Integrity is also an indispensable resource for regional policing institutes and police training academies.

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