Measuring police integrity across the world
Subtitle: studies from established democracies and countries in transition
By: Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, M. R. Haberfeld, editors
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781493922789
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Police; Police misconduct; Complaints against
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying police integrity / Sanja Kutnjak Ivković; title: Police integity in Armenia / Aleksandr Khechumyan and Sanja Kutnjak Ivković; title: Police integrity in Australia / Louise E. Porter, Tim Prenzler, and Kelly Hine; title: Police integrity in Croatia / Sanja Kutnjak Ivković; title: Police integrity in Estonia / Birgit Vallmüür; title: Police integrity in Russia / Sergei Cheloukhine, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Qasim Haq, and M.R. Haberfeld; title: Police integrity in Slovenia / Branko Lobnikar and Gorazd Meško; title: Police integrity in South Africa / Adri Sauerman and Sanja Kutnjak Ivković; title: Police integrity in South Korea / Wook Kang and Sanja Kutnjak Ivković; title: Police integrity in Thailand / Narin Phetthong and Sanja Kutnjak Ivković; title: Police integrity in the United States / Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, M.R. Haberfeld, and Robert Peacock; title: A comparative perspective on police integrity / Sanja Kutnjak Ivković and M.R. Haberfeld.