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12 pages summarizing 5 chapters of this book by Kappeler, Sluder and Alpert. The chapters address issues both surrounding and explaining the reasons underlying the commission of deviant acts by police. The chapters address deviant behavior; prejudice and discrimination; police brutality; abuse of authority; and drug-related police deviance. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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1998; p. x) and should be used in any formal paper that comes from these chapter summaries. All that is included in the text here is the specific page
number where quotes can be found, in the interest of using space for summary space rather than for proper citation. JM Chapter Four: Breeding Deviant Conformity
This chapter examines police ideology through analysis of "the cultural and cognitive properties of police officers" (p. 84), as well as the occupational culture in
which police work occurs. Major divisions focus on (1) the development of police character; and (2) the police worldview, which includes examination of cultural themes. Development of Police Character
Three paradigms are generally used to explain police character and behavior: psychological, sociological or anthropological. The psychological and sociological perspectives are
addressed first, but the authors give much more attention to the anthropological paradigm in that it is the one seen as being most complete and able to explain police character
and development. The psychological paradigm. There are two subdivisions within this perspective. One holds that it is the personality of individuals
(authoritarian and conservative) that attract them to police work and that their personalities shape the work they do. The other approaches the matter from the reverse perspective, suggesting that
it is the nature of the work that shapes the personality of those who complete training and remain in the profession. The sociological
paradigm. This arose from rejection of personality-based explanations of police character, because of their focus on the individual. This perspective focuses instead on the group and the dynamics
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