Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For in policing the organisation, work and culture foster can encourage corruption. This raises issues as to why do police break the law and, crucially, 'who controls the controllers'? Corruption is defined in a broad, multi-facetted way. It concerns abuse of authority and trust; and it takes serious form in conspiracies to break the law and to evade exposure when cops can become criminals. Attention is paid to typologies of corruption (with grass-eaters, meat-eaters, noble-cause); the forms corruption takes in diverse environments; the pathways officers take into corruption and their rationalisations; and to collusion in corruption from within and without the organization. Comparative analyses are made of corruption, scandal and reform principally in the USA, UK and the Netherlands. The work examines issues of control, accountability and the new institutions of oversight. It provides a fresh, accessible overview of this under-researched topic for students, academics, police and criminal justice officials and members of oversight agencies.

The Complexities of Police Corruption provides a comprehensive examination of the role of gender as it relates to police corruption, crime control, and policing as an institution. Author Marilyn Corsianos examines different forms of corruption, including some behaviors that are generally not recognized as corruption by police departments, such as selective law enforcement, racial profiling, gender bias and other discriminatory police practices against marginalized populations.. The book also explores the role of police culture in preserving and defending misconduct and digs into the thorny question of why significantly fewer women are involved in police corruption. Throughout the book, excerpts from interviews with 32 former police offers illustrate the complex ways that gender construction is connected to police corruption and shows how policing as an institution creates corruption risks. The Complexities of Police Corruption is a challenging and insightful book about the intersections between gender and corruption.

A revision of papers presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) which was held in Szczytno, Poland in May, 2001.

While many police officers undertake their work conforming to the highest ethical standards, the fact remains that unethical police conduct continues to be a recurring problem around the world. With examples from a range of jurisdictions, Police Corruption: Preventing Misconduct and Maintaining Integrity examines the causes of police misconduct and

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

This book provides an examination of noble cause, how it emerges as a fundamental principle of police ethics and how it can provide the basis for corruption. The noble cause — a commitment to "doing something about bad people" — is a central "ends-based" police ethic that can be corrupted when officers violate the law on behalf of personally held moral values. This book is about the power that police use to do their work and how it can corrupt police at the individual and organizational levels. It provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of the kinds of problems they will confront in the practice of police work.

POLICING FOR PROFIT presents a startling, yet timely exposE demonstrating that some U.S. metropolitan police departments are more interested in running a business than being a presence on the streets "to protect and serve"--and they're getting away with it--measuring success by both ticket and arrest "productivity." But they are not alone! Such police department revenue-producing ventures can only be achieved in partnership with greedy courts and unscrupulous proprietary interests. To make matters worse, in Florida, state law actually incentivized "policing for profit." Beginning in 1999, police officers in municipalities must, by law, receive "extra" pension benefits if increasing auto insurance is paid in their community, a feat easily accomplished by writing more traffic tickets! The undeniable and compelling evidence put forward proves clandestine ticket and arrest quotas--as covertly practiced in cities such as Tampa, Florida--result in fraud, while creating a wealth transfer from the public to police, courts, state government, auto insurers, and private vendors for courts, jails and prisons. The remedy is public awareness and demand for improved accountability systems to prevent this fraudulent abuse within the so-called justice system. The story shines a light on policing for profit tactics, including ticket quotas, arrest quotas, kangaroo courts, how quotas can result in fraud, how proprietary interests profit from tickets and arrests, and the lack of external oversight of law enforcement agencies and courts, as illustrated in the federal court case Orban versus the City of Tampa.