Jammed Up : : Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department / / Robert J. Kane, Michael D. White.

Drugs, bribes, falsifying evidence, unjustified force and kickbacks: there are many opportunities for cops to act like criminals. Jammed Up is the definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconduct. While police departments are notoriously protective of their own-especially personnel and...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE: What Bad Cops Tell Us about Good Policing
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PROLOGUE
  • 1. Jammed Up
  • 2. What We Know and Don’t Know about Police Misconduct
  • 3. Setting the Stage
  • 4. Exploring Career-Ending Misconduct in the NYPD
  • 5. Predicting Police Misconduct
  • 6. The Department, the City, and Police Misconduct
  • 7. Explaining Bad Behavior
  • 8. What We Know about Being Jammed Up, and Transitioning to a Discourse on Good Policing
  • Appendix: Analyses from Chapter 5
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHORS