Description: I. INTRODUCTION TO POLICE MISCONDUCT. 1. Legal Authority of Police. 2. Police as Symbols of Government and Justice. 3. Police Misconduct: What Is It? 4. Should We Tell the Police to Say Yes to Gratuities? 5. Police Misconduct and Minority Citizens: Exploring Key Issues. II. CRIMES COMMITTED BY POLICE OFFICERS. 6. Parameters of Police Misconduct. 7. Police Perceptions and the Norming of Institutional Corruption. 8. Police Corruption and Criminal Monopoly: Victimless Crimes. 9. Historical Perspective of Police Corruption in New York City. 10. Drug Related Police Corruption: The Miami Experience. 11. To Serve and Pursue: Exploring Police Sexual Violence against Women. 12. Crimes Committed by Police Officers. III. PHYSICAL ABUSE BY POLICE OFFICERS. 13. The Police Officer's Ethical Use of Force. 14. Accidents, Icons, and Indexing: The Dynamics of News Coverage of Police Use of Force. 15. How Police Justify the Use of Force. 16. The Abner Louima Case: Idiosyncratic Personal Crime or Symptomatic Police Brutality? 17. Criminal LawThe Right to Run: Deadly Force and the Fleeing Felon. Tennessee v. Gardner. 18. Factors Related to Killings of Felons by Police Officers: A Test of the Community Violence and Conflict Hypothesis. 19. Technological Innovation and the Development of Less-Than-Lethal Force Options. 20. Police Pursuits and the Use of Force: Recognizing and Managing The Pucker FactorA Research Note. 21. The Most Deadly Force: Police Pursuits. 22. The Other Deadly Force: An Analysis of One State's High-Speed Pursuit Guidelines. IV. POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY. 23. Morality in Law Enforcement: Chasing Bad Guys with the Los Angeles Police Department. 24. Can Police Recruiting Control Police Misconduct? 25. Law Enforcement: Policing the Defective CenturionDecertification and Beyond. 26. What's Wrong with Complaint Investigations? Dealing with Difference Differently in Complaints against Police. 27. Internal Affairs: The Police Agencies' Approach to the Investigation of Police Misconduct. 28. Civilian Oversight of Police Behavior. 29. An Analysis of Section 1983 Litigation Dealing with Police Misconduct. 30. Police Civil Liability: An Analysis of Section 1983 Actions in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. 31. Preventing Excessive Force Litigation. 32. Police Abuse: Can the Violence Be Contained?

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