Measuring police integrity across the world : studies from established democracies and countries in transition /

Measuring police integrity across the world : studies from established democracies and countries in transition /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Springer, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 376 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Online access with purchase: Springer (t)
Subject:	Police misconduct. Police -- Complaints against. Police -- Complaints against. Police misconduct.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11094607

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Other authors / contributors:	Kutnjak Ivković, Sanja, 1965- editor. Haberfeld, M. R. (Maria R.), 1957- editor.
ISBN:	9781493922796 1493922793 1493922785 9781493922789 9781493922789
Notes:	Includes index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 15, 2015).
Summary:	This book brings together research on police integrity on regions worldwide. The results for each country indicate whether police officers know the official rules, how seriously they view police misconduct, what they think the appropriate and expected discipline for misconduct should be, and how willing they are to report it. Police misconduct refers to everything from corruption and use excessive force, to perjury, falsification of evidence, and failure to react. Police Integrity and police misconduct are topics of great concern worldwide. Police integrity is envisioned as the inclination to resist temptations to abuse the rights and privileges of police occupation. Using their extensive experience studying police integrity in the United States, the editors have created an applicable framework for measuring police integrity in other countries. The results of their research are brought together in this timely volume, including contributions from both established democracies and countries in transition, which each present unique challenges for improving police integrity. Each chapter follows the same format and contains a theoretical analysis of the relevant legal, historical, political, social, and economic conditions in the country, followed by the analyses of empirical results and policy recommendations. In the last chapter, editors Kutnjak Ivković and Haberfeld take a comparative look across the countries by engaging in the in-depth comparative analysis. This work will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers studying policing both in the United States and internationally, presenting a theoretical framework that can be applied to other regions for further research.
Other form:	Printed edition: 9781493922789
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-1-4939-2279-6

Table of Contents:

Preface.- Studying Police Integrity
Police Integity in Armenia
Police Integrity in Australia
Police Integrity in Croatia
Police Integrity in Estonia
Police Integrity in Russia
Police Integrity in Slovenia
Police Integrity in South Africa
Police Integrity in South Korea
Police Integrity in Thailand
Police Integrity in the United States
A Comparative Perspective on Police Integrity
Index.