Complexities of Police Corruption

Gender, Identity, and Misconduct

AvMarilyn Corsianos

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-31
Mått:160 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:503 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Issues in Crime and Justice
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781442206366

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Marilyn Corsianos is professor of criminology and sociology at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of Policing and Gendered Justice, which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, and the coeditor of Interrogating Social Justice. She has written numerous articles on policing, power and social inequalities.

Recensioner i media

Too often, gendered study means looking at women. This pathbreaking work on police corruption incorporates insights from masculinities studies and cultural criminology to show that corruption is a gendered activity that is intertwined with hegemonic masculinity. Marilyn Corsianos adds immeasurably to the study of policing through her demonstration that police culture and the media shape police hypermasculinity. Her suggestions that the Community Policing Model can reduce both patriarchal influence and corruption are especially provocative.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceChapter 1: Police Corruption: From the Introduction of Formal Policing Systems to TodayChapter 2: Interrogating Police Corruption and the Organization as EnablerChapter 3: TheRole of the Masculinist Police Culture in CorruptionChapter 4: Critical Dilemmas in Police BehaviorChapter 5: Media Constructions of Police CorruptionChapter 6: Increasing Police Accountability through Community PolicingChapter 7: Concluding Remarks