Measuring Police Integrity Across the World Studies from Established
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 dis
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Sanja Kutnjak Ivković • M. R. Haberfeld Editors
Measuring Police Integrity Across the World Studies from Established Democracies and Countries in Transition
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Editors Sanja Kutnjak Ivković Michigan State University East Lansing MI USA
M. R. Haberfeld John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York NY USA
ISBN 978-1-4939-2278-9 ISBN 978-1-4939-2279-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-2279-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014960068 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedicated to Carl B. Klockars–with regrets that he is unable to share the joy of this book with us. Sanja Kutnjak Ivković M. R. Haberfeld Dedicated to my loving family–thank you for your unconditional love, understanding, and patience. Sanja Kutnjak Ivković Dedicated to the memory of Edzia Siekiera— your life was a stream of tragedies that you handled with utmost bravery and integrity, and for this you will never be forgotten; and to my daughters, Nellie and Mia, whose love is my driving force. M. R. Haberfeld
Preface
Police integrity, the police resistance to temptations to abuse the rights and privileges of their office, is a topic that has long held the interest of academics, practitioners, and the public. This interest has been intense not only in the USA, but also around the world. For most of the history of the police, the study of the police has been the study of their shortcomings, failures, scandals, corruption, and brutality. Although within the past twenty years, the focus of the police literature has shifted to topics of professional policy and management, community and problem-oriented policing, and the tools of technological and management sophistication, problems associated with integrity still haunt policing. Police integrity and police misconduct continue to be the topics of great c
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