Fallen Blue Knights Controlling Police Corruption [Hardcover]

Despite its suspected prevalence, no comprehensive analysis of police corruption has been published for nearly three decades.Fallen Blue Knightsprovides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the subject, while also addressing the question of what can be done to ensure successful corruption control. Kutnjak Ivkovi? argues that the current mechanisms for control--the courts, prosecutors, independent commissions, and the media, as well as the internal control mechanisms within a police agency itself--suffer from severe shortcomings that substantially limit their effectiveness. In this much-needed analysis, Kutnjak Ivkovi? redefines the roles of major players and develops a novel, comprehensive model of corruption control.


Acknowledgments
1. Police Corruption and Its Control
2. Defining Police Corruption
3. Measuring Police Corruption
4. Causes and Correlates of Police Corruption
5. Corruption Control: Detection, Investigation, and Discipline
6. Corruption Control: Other Functions
7. A Step Ahead: A Multifaceted System of Comprehensive Corruption Control
Conclusion
References
Index

No one has thought more clearly or researched more deeply into the questions of police corruption than Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovi`c. She has brought to her study of the commissions investigating police corruption in the United States over the last three decades a framework of scholarship that puts their experience into a useful, more general context. Her personal experience in the police shows through every chapter. This book must be read by anyone addressing the issues of police corruption in the years ahead. No one can fail to learn from Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovi?'s fine book,Fallen Blue Knights.
--Philip B. Heymann, Professor, Harvard University, author ofTerrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning Without War

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