Fallen Blue Knights Controlling Police Corruption

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• Author(s)
  Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic
• Publisher
  Oxford University Press
• Format
  PDF
• Print ISBN
  9780195169164, 0195169166
• eText ISBN
  9780195169164, 0195169166
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  Despite its suspected prevalence, no comprehensive analysis of police corruption has been published for nearly three decades. Fallen Blue Knights provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the subject, while also addressing the question of what can be done to ensure successful corruption control. Kutnjak Ivković argues that the current mechanisms for control–the courts, prosecutors, independent commissions, and the media, as well as the internal control mechanisms within a police agency itself–suffer from severe shortcomings that substantially limit their effectiveness. In this much-needed analysis, Kutnjak Ivković redefines the roles of major players and develops a novel, comprehensive model of corruption control.