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Rethinking the Definition of Police Crime: The Relationship of Sex, Drugs, Violence and/or Greed to Virtually all Police Crime

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Sherman (1978) and others have defined police crime as crime directly stemming from employment as a sworn law enforcement officer. Kappeler, Sluder, and Alpert (1998) offer examples of police officers whose criminal offenses that constituted police crime, while offering other examples of offenses as ones that, although criminal acts committed by police officers, do not fit the definition of police crime. A closer look at their examples, as well as other attributes of crime committed by sworn law enforcement officers, however, lead to a different conclusion. In this study of 647 sworn law enforcement officers arrested in 2005-2006, the findings offer support for rethinking the definition of police crime. The findings suggest that police crime should be defined by looking at four underlying features of a distorted sense of entitlement common to almost all offenses for which sworn law enforcement officers were arrested in this content analysis of news articles: crimes involving sex offenses, crimes involving physical aggression and violence, crimes involving drugs and/or alcohol, and crimes involving theft, fraud, and/or financial matters. NOTE: Prefer to present the paper in a standard panel.
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Stinson, Philip. "Rethinking the Definition of Police Crime: The Relationship of Sex, Drugs, Violence and/or Greed to Virtually all Police Crime" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 13, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p199994_index.html>

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Stinson, P. M. , 2007-11-13 "Rethinking the Definition of Police Crime: The Relationship of Sex, Drugs, Violence and/or Greed to Virtually all Police Crime" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p199994_index.html

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Abstract: Sherman (1978) and others have defined police crime as crime directly stemming from employment as a sworn law enforcement officer. Kappeler, Sluder, and Alpert (1998) offer examples of police officers whose criminal offenses that constituted police crime, while offering other examples of offenses as ones that, although criminal acts committed by police officers, do not fit the definition of police crime. A closer look at their examples, as well as other attributes of crime committed by sworn law enforcement officers, however, lead to a different conclusion. In this study of 647 sworn law enforcement officers arrested in 2005-2006, the findings offer support for rethinking the definition of police crime. The findings suggest that police crime should be defined by looking at four underlying features of a distorted sense of entitlement common to almost all offenses for which sworn law enforcement officers were arrested in this content analysis of news articles: crimes involving sex offenses, crimes involving physical aggression and violence, crimes involving drugs and/or alcohol, and crimes involving theft, fraud, and/or financial matters. NOTE: Prefer to present the paper in a standard panel.

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