CJS 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Blue-Collar Worker
6 Oct 2020
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Police subculture encourages secrecy, loyalty, and solidarity. Officers have elevated status officers are beyond reproach. This leads to the code of silence. An informal agreement among police officers to not report each other for misconduct. Note: the code of silence is arguably worse in policing , but it. The police organizations occurs in other places. Deviance is not typically a solitary enterprise flourishes when there is group support. When corruption occurs, typically there are multiple officers involved. Different police agencies have different tolerances for deviance that may encourage greater corruption. Some studies show that in corruption is more common in poor and more crime-ridden communities. Increased crime corruption is just police crime. Officers are typically perceived as blue collar workers making relatively. Officers feel they are underpaid -> easier to rationalize corruption. Critical to send a message from the chief of police that corruption is not tolerated.
