Overview

Chapter 11
Types of Police Misconduct

True / False Questions

1. Police officers, like people in any other line of work, are sometimes guilty of misbehaving.

ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 187

2. Standard police academy consideration of police ethics often is nothing more than a set of warnings about the sorts of misconduct into which police officers sometimes fall.

ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 187

3. When people deviate, they follow norms of conduct that are prescribed for them.

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4. Frequently deviance is only informally sanctioned.

ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 187

5. Police are legal, political, and administrative actors.

ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 187

6. When we consider police misconduct we ask: was the misconduct done in the name of personal gain? and did the misconduct involve the use of the police officer’s position of authority?

ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 191

7. Police misconduct falls into four distinctive category types.

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8. Ineptitude is when police use their legal authority (badges) to obtain personal rewards.

ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 195

9. Grass eating involves proactive, systematic, organized payoffs.

ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 192

10. Noble cause corruption involves police officers misusing their positions of authority for personal gain.

ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 194