AJ 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Socalled, Police Perjury, Mark Fuhrman
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Corporate atmosphere: evidence has established a corporate atmosphere that runs contrary to the conventional principles and beliefs of the police department. Many early research found police officers were significantly different from others in their beliefs and attitudes. Scheingold (1984) identified the factors that lead to the increasingly violent existence of police subculture. Themes and value systems: in one of the seminal pieces of policing subculture research, van maanen (1978) examined how police deal with views of the people they come into contact with. "the asshole" is the person who does not recognize authority from the police. For this type of individual other names include creep, thief, mope, rough, jerk- off, clown, wiseguy Klockars (1983) provided us with a kind of noble-cause wrongdoing in the "dirty. Harry issue" (from the clint eastwood film), asking whether it was ethically acceptable for a police officer to inflict pain on a suspect to gain information that would save an innocent person.
