SOC 3750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.3: Dangerous Offender, Public Good, Reasonable Suspicion

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

The necessity of dishonesty: police deviance, making the case", and the public good. Dishonesty in policing is common, especially in apprehension and prosecution of criminals. Justification of noble cause" of ridding society of crime: but little is known about motives. Certain prosecutors acquiesce in, even encourage, police dishonestly. Policymakers need to know what motivates officers to cross the line" to deter them. Secrecy surrounding police subculture makes it difficult to design remedial policies: this study used interviews conducted by a fellow officer. Existed for a long time: mid-19th and early 20th century reports of perjury and other forms of corruption, problem has continued. Scholarly attention began after us supreme court decision to adopt exclusionary rule as remedy for. Early research: determining the impact of the rule on criminal prosecutions, assumed police personnel would hesitate to cooperate because it could discredit them and. Limited conclusions because they were drawn from archival data expose to legal liability.