Understanding Police Misconduct
In: Advances in Police Theory and Practice; Police Corruption, S. 15-26
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In: Advances in Police Theory and Practice; Police Corruption, S. 15-26
In: Rachel A. Harmon, Legal Remedies for Police Misconduct, in Academy for Justice, a Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform (Erik Luna ed., 2017) (Forthcoming)
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In: Law & Policy, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 81-100
ISSN: 1467-9930
The aim of this paper is to extend and clarify the organizational deviance perspective by focusing on police misconduct. Toward that end the paper defines organizational deviance and police misconduct, illustrates the linkages between natural persons and deviant departments, and considers the public policy implications of viewing police misconduct as organizational deviance.
Discusses the historical legislative basis for police liability for police misconduct, investigation and punishment as well as prevention of misconduct.
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In: Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2017
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In: Routledge series on practical and evidence-based policing
In: ABC-CLIO contemporary world issues series
"Police Misconduct in America assesses the history of police excesses from 1900 to the present."
In: International Journal of Public Sector Management, Band 23, Heft 7, S. 613-631
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report the findings of an analysis of official data on police misconduct, providing new insights into the nature and extent of police misconduct and in the official response to police misconduct. Next to the use of force and neglect of duty, private time misconduct is a major type of (alleged) misconduct although it is often discarded from theoretical conceptions of police misconduct. The analysis also showed that two‐thirds of internal investigations are the result of an internal report. This paper shows that official data on police misconduct can result in new insights in the nature and extent of police misconduct and is therefore a relevant source for academic analysis.Design/methodology/approachAn analysis of official data on police misconduct is compared with theoretical notions of police misconduct, internal investigations and reliability of official data.FindingsThe implementation of a uniform Registration of Internal Investigations for all Dutch police forces has resulted in a clear increase in the number of registered investigations. This seems to be due to a combination of increased strictness on (alleged) misconduct and an improved quality of the registration. The analysis also showed that two‐thirds of the investigations are the result of an internal report. This places a new perspective on the so‐called code of silence among police officers. However, information on the extent and nature of complaints that are dealt with through the complaints procedure is lacking. The complaints procedure has also no formal relation with the disciplinary or criminal procedures.Research limitations/implicationsOfficial data on police misconduct have to be viewed with a critical eye. The analyses showed however that the Dutch data seem fairly reliable. Additional research should place the official data in further perspective, e.g. through case studies and through a control of the registration with the files of the Bureaux of Internal Investigations. Finally, a comparison with official data in other countries is needed.Practical implicationsThe Dutch police should improve its complaints procedures and the complaints registration.Originality/valueAcademic analysis of police misconduct is often limited to case studies of scandals or focuses on citizen complaints. The paper gives a broader perspective by using official data.
In: Criminology: the official publication of the American Society of Criminology, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 867-896
ISSN: 1745-9125
The present study examined whether variations in social ecological conditions in New York City police precincts and divisions have predicted patterns of police misconduct from 1975 to 1996. The study included misconduct cases involving bribery, extortion, excessive force, and other abuses of police authority, as well as certain administrative rule violations. Using a longitudinal framework, the analyses found that dimensions of structural disadvantage and population mobility— drawn from the social disorganization literature—as well as changes in Latino population—drawn from the racial conflict perspective— explained changes in police misconduct over time. Further, most of the variations occurred within, as opposed to between, precincts and divisions over time, strengthening the case for a longitudinal examination.
In: 33 Criminal Justice 31 (Fall 2018)
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In: Howard Law Journal, Forthcoming
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In: International journal of public sector management: IJPSM, Band 23, Heft 7, S. 613-632
ISSN: 0951-3558
In: University of Chicago Legal Forum, Band 2016
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In: International journal of public sector management, Band 23, Heft 7
ISSN: 1758-6666