What is the effect of peer group norms on police corruption? As a police administrator, how would you use these norms to deal with the problem of police corruption?
What will be an ideal response?
Secrecy hides corruption. Social solidarity insulates and supports corrupt officers from internal investigators. Social isolation hides corruption and corrupt officers from the public. In order to fight this corrupt practice, police work and procedures have to be open to public scrutiny on a daily basis. Honorable pride and integrity has to be instilled in officers through police training, constant discussion, and the development of professional role models. It also has to start "at the top" in terms of the selection of highly ethical police administrators.
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An important method of identifying problems and focusing police efforts is:
a. radar traffic units. b. using snitches and drug addicts to reliably inform on goings-on. c. citizen surveys. d. giving the mayor and city manager police scanner radios to listen to calls.
Grand jury proceedings are intensely _________
Fill in the blank with correct word.
Police may act more forcefully in neighborhoods where ________ creates the perception that extreme forms of social control are needed to maintain order.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What was the purpose of the Bridewells constructed in England in the 1500s?
A) They were early cellular prisons designed for incorrigible juveniles.
B) They were workhouses created to provide employment and housing for the unemployed.
C) They were asylums sponsored by the Christian church to place wrongdoers in seclusion.
D) They were prisons designed to incarcerate individuals convicted of serious felony offenses.