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Police Integrity: Rankings of Scenarios on the Klockars Scale by "Management Cops"

NCJ Number
235183
Journal
Criminal Justice Review Volume: 36 Issue: 2 Dated: June 2011 Pages: 152-164
Author(s)
Gennaro F. Vito; Scott Wolfe; George E. Higgins; William F. Walsh
Date Published
June 2011
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This study examined the ethical views of police managers regarding police corruption.
Abstract
Policing is recognized as a morally dangerous profession. This study extends analyses of police corruption via a scale developed by Carl Klockars by surveying police managers attending the Administrative Officers' Course at the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. The findings indicate that these police managers acknowledge the existence of a questionable moral climate in police agencies and a tolerance for official misconduct that is troubling to consider. (Published Abstract)