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(authoritarian and conservative) that attract them to police work and that their personalities shape the work they do. The other ...

Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...

a crime. Even a convicted criminal cannot be the subject of punishment meted out by officers whose emotions get out of control. I...

people closer to the processes of arresting suspects and investigating crime scenes than ever before (Getty, 2001). Law enforceme...

done a good job. James Champy (1998) of reengineering fame goes so far as to say that the annual bonus is about as motivating as ...

Court decision Miranda v. Arizona, which imposed carefully define limits on how far police interrogations could go. According to ...

job" (Brewer and Wilson, 1995, p. 189). Members of the community feel betrayed when those they look to for protection are, themse...

tights, underpants and shoes were in a rolled-up heap about ten or fifteen feet away.2 She was naked from the waist down, with her...

in order for the public to have trust in law enforcement officers. This is particularly true as there is evidence that trust in la...

Suspect (Beachem, 1998) does not mention police corruption, this writer/tutor assumes that this must be an element of this film as...

the points you will be covering in the body of your paper. Profiling by police officers has become a very controversial issue in ...

unnecessary force are minority members. According to this report, police have employed lethal force to subdue unarmed suspects fle...

definition of excessive force is, "the use of any more force than a highly skilled officer should find necessary to use in that pa...

up the incident. While the precedent makes for an exciting police drama, the reality is that corruption does exist and New Jersey ...

they have witnessed. It sometimes takes a long time for the psychological aspects to come out after these traumatic events, but i...

country on a regular basis, the good news is that many concerned people are trying very hard to fix the system. And, it is throug...

one is afraid to get caught? And what of rationality - is that not merely a reflection of ones own self-interest? It is importan...

however, an easy demonstration to make. Indeed, drugs in our schools have resulted in the formation of its own subculture and tha...

at sporting events and just generally ensuring that there are no tie-ups in the smooth running of anything in the public areas. T...

public reprisal. What happens is that when a suspect is unfortunately shot in the course of illegal activity, the officer is scrut...

the treatment received. The work examines, as would be imagined, both the United States and Britain. According to one review of...

optimism, there exists an invisible boundary line that, even though race relations seem to be improving, keeps the races separated...

The CIUS is the report most commonly used in research and articles addressing crime in this country (Maltz, 1999). The FBI obtains...

money legally from licensing fees and taxes on hotels, bars, and restaurants ("Sex industry," 1998). There is a feminist advocac...

American nationalism is an ideology which has shaped the face of the world as we see it today. The United States itself first pro...

voice, it can be present in attitude, or behavior and no matter its vehicle, it is painful to those on the receiving end....

In ten pages this paper examines law enforcement work in an assessment of ethics and moral philosophy with the Amadou Diallo case ...

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...

the identifier which tends to define a profession for its stakeholders and scholars point to an extensive body of academic literat...

psychological abuse or neglect. It is also the case that domestic violence is not confined to particular socio-economic group, but...