Police Corruption Flashcards
Miller’s 2003 study found that what % of police officers were potentially corrupt and how many forces did they study?
0.5-1% and 8 forces
What are the four categories of corruption?
Misfeasance, non-feasance and malfeasance
What is the most common form of corruption?
gratuities?
What are the five types of corruption?
gratuities, bribes, theft and burglary, internal corruption and brutality
Summarise Sherman’s 1974 research?
moral career: starts with gratuities which is a slippery slope that turns from reactive to proactive pursuance.
Who is Surpico?
A good officer that got shot in the face for telling his seniors that there was corruption in the force
Who is Michael David?
snorted drugs of his dashboard, protected drug dealers and sold drugs, 10 years in prison.
What are the three levels of corruption?
rotten apples and rotten pockets, pervasive unorganised and pervasive organised
What did Punch 2009 say the three new challenges were?
social networking sites, body-building gyms and steriods, access to IT networks
What are the five explanations of police corruption?
police subculture, police organisations, social/ structural organisation, nature of police work and individual level explanations
What are internal and external strategies for controlling corruption?
Internal: policies, training, recruitment, supervision, discipline, standards of behaviour, consistency in operations.
External: special investigations, criminal prosecution, and citizen oversight.
What does Millers study find the most common form of corruption?
information compromise
