Pollock Questions Chapter 7

Q-1: In Chapter 7 Pollock describes the various types of corruption. List all six and describe each sentence or two.

Ans: Six types of police corruption

Officers use his/her position: The police officers use their authority to attract the people to give them money, services or illegal practices.

Brutality: In this type of corruption the police officer captured the smuggled items like drugs, narcotics, etc. from the smugglers and then sold it in the market.

To obtain improper financial benefit: In this type of police corruption, the police officer gets financial benefit from the person and provide them the services illegally.

Bribes: I this type of corruption the police officer get money or other valuable items from the citizen and provide them some secret information or do their work illegally irrespective of considering the rules and regulation.

Extra job policy abuse: An action of the police officer to injure, insult the dignity of a citizen

Gratuities: In this type of corrupt police officer get the meal, free laundering service, personal work from the citizen by utilization of their authority.

Q#2: Causes of Misconduct. In Chapter 7, Pollock describe various types of police misconduct and then discusses various explanations, including "Individual", "Organizational". In class, we generally do not emphasize Dize individual explanations for deviance. Rather, we start with the assumption that if power is subject to abuse, it will be abused, and we emphasize situational and political factors. These roughly correspond to Pollock's organization and societal factors. List several of the organizational and societal explanations Pollock provides. Which ones do you think are most important to understand? Discuss any explanations you think Pollock may be missing

Ans:

Individual Explanation

Rotten-apple argument: There are few individuals in the whole organization are having bad characters, while in public view it blames the whole department. This creates a misperception about the police organization. So individual capacity and alignment are mandatory for the better result.

Police capacity development: It is the dire need to build the professional and technical capacity of the police officer to handle the crimes accordingly irrespective of rotten apple arguments.

Possible forecasters: like gender, age, education, race, military, experience, academics, history

Institutional Organizational Explanation

Poor management: the poor management of the police organization lead it to misconduct and corrupt practices.

Improper rewards: Non-availability of Improper reward in the shape of bonus salary, excellent task execution bonus, etc.

Tatum: Continuity of corruption

Ignoring ethical problems: As the police organization ignoring the ethical behavior which leads to mal-practices

Hypocrisy and fear: In police job execution consideration of hypocrisy and fear matter a lot. As it affects the capability of the police while employing.

The sense of victimization: It a big hurdle in police organization that the individual is always in fear of victimization.

Cynicism: police are not entitling to any reward

wrongdoing: Through illegal practices achievements

Survival of the fittest: The fittest in the police organization only survive

Societal Explanation

Officer may rationalize the non-law enforcement upon public deviation

Officer following the same way of illegal doing upon the public doing it

Police officer like citizen does the same thing of controlling the public irrespective of rules and regulation.

The second one under the societal explanation police officer justifies their illegal action when the public doing it. So, they present that the public doing the wrong things therefor police officer is also allowed to do the same thing.

Pollock missed the explanation of Training and capacity building which I think to be included in the explanation. As a well-organized police officer behaves in a well-organized manner.