SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: New York City Police Department, Differential Association, Anomie

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Noble cause corruption: use of illegitimate means to achieve ends. Nasty means to get the job done. The ingredients: noble cause, opportunity to use illegitimate means, a guilty party, officer believes that legitimate means are inadequate. Falsifying reports (hide violations to get convictions) Perjury: extremely common (lying on the stand) Organizational factors: budgets, effectiveness and pressure to perform (feel pressured to do whatever they need to get the convictions in order to please senior officers and public, performance and promotion. Officers typically work alone which is a challenge. Creditability gap (cid:894)(cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) offe(cid:374)der a(cid:374)d offi(cid:272)er(cid:895) (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e it happe(cid:374)ed . Interpretations of what excessive force is varies between police, courts and citizens. Rodney king (92% aa thought it was excessive, 72% white, 54% police) It is very underreported; because why bother nothing is going to be done. When it is it is minor and is usually legitimate.