Describe the typologies of police deviance proposed by scholars

What will be an ideal response?


Police crime is an officer?s use of official police powers to engage in criminal conduct; occupational deviance is behavior performed under the guise of police authority that does not conform to accepted standards of conduct; police corruption is the misuse of police authority for personal gain or organizational gift; and abuse of authority is a catchall category for various forms of inappropriate police conduct that do not necessarily amount to crime, deviance, or corruption.

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a. True b. False

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How does theoretical elaboration differ from theoretical integration?

What will be an ideal response?

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a. less than b. about the same as c. greater than

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To avoid the problems that result from using bail, some jurisdictions have increased their use of citations.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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