| Description |
309 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part One: Authority, discretion, and the Police function -- 1. The capacity to use force as the core of the Police role -- 2. Authority: the limits of discretion -- 3. Discretion and order -- 4. The Dirty Harry problem -- Part Two: Deception -- 5. Deception by Police -- 6. Who really gets stung? some issues raised by the new Police undercover work -- 7. Entrapment: an ethical analysis -- 8. Privacy and Police undercover work -- 9. Ethics, Police practices, and American Constitutional law -- Part Three: Force and deadly force -- 10. Police violence -- 11. Police and deadly force: a look at the empirical literature -- 12. The social contract and the Police use of deadly force -- Part Four: Corruption -- 13. Becoming bent -- 14. Gratuities, corruption, and the democratic ethos of Policing: the case of the free cup of coffee -- 15. Police, privacy, and the double-standard |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Subject |
Police corruption -- Congresses.
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Police corruption.
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Police discretion -- Congresses.
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Police discretion.
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Police ethics -- Congresses.
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Police ethics.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Elliston, Frederick.
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Feldberg, Michael, 1943-
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| LC no. |
84022259 |
| ISBN |
0847671917 |
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0847671925 (paperback) |
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