Should We Tell the Police to Say “Yes” to Gratuities?

Criminal Justice Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 37-49

  Kania, Richard R E ^a  

^a GUILFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 77949523376     PISSN: 0731129X     EISSN: 19375948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0731129X.1988.9991839     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Aubry, Jr., The Value of Ethics in the Police Service, 12 Police 41 (1967).
2. McMullan, A Theory of Corruption, 9 Soc. Rev. 183-84.
3. Reprinted in S. Walker, The Police in America: An Introduction 245 (1983).
4. Aubry, Jr., supra note 1, at 42.
5. Feldberg, Gratuities, Corruption, and the Democratic Ethos of Policing: The Case of the Free Cup of Coffee, in Moral Issues in Police Work 267-76 (F. Elliston & M. Feldberg eds. 1985).
6. See, e. g., Bracey, A Functional Approach to Police Corruption John Jay College Criminal Justice Center Monographs NO. 1 (1976)
7. Police Corruption in Britain and America: A Functional Approach, 1 Police Stud. 16-23 (1978)
8. Corruption as a Response to Legal Innovation, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. (Dec. 5, 1980)
9. See also Kaut, Utang Na Loob: A System of Contractual Obligation Among Tagalos, 17 Sw. J. of Anthropology 256 (1961).
10. E. Leach, Culture and Communication: The Logic by Which Symbols are Connected (1976).
11. See, e.g., Stoddard, The “Informal Code” of Police Deviancy: A Group Approach to “Blue-Coat Crime,” 59 J. Of Crim. L., Criminology, & Police Sci. 203, 205 (1968).
12. T. Barker & J. Roebuck, An Empirical Typology of Police Corruption 21-24 (1973).
13. Cohen, Exploiting Police Authority, 5 Crim. Justice Ethics, Summer/Fall 1986, at 23.
14. J. Kleinig, The Slippery Slope Problem, lecture 23, at 1-3 (1987) (unpublished lecture notes, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York).
15. Id. at 1.
16. Homan, Social Behavior As Exchange, 63 Am. J. Soc. 606 (1958).
17. E. Leach, supra note 6, at 6.
18. M. Mauss, The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies 63 (I. Cunnison trans. 1967).
19. Bracey, supra note 6, A Functional Approach to Police Corruption.
20. Kaut, supra note 6.
21. J. Kleinig, supra note 9.
22. Feldberg, supra note 5, at 268-70.
23. The Knapp Commission, The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption 65-66 (1972).
24. See, e.g., Fishman, Measuring Police Corruption, John Jay College Criminal Justice Center Monographs NO. 10 (1978).
25. R. Kania, Discipline in Small Police Forces: An Ethnographic Examination of Bureaucratic Social Control (1982) (Ph.D. diss., U. Va).
26. M. Banton, The Policeman in the Community 58, 223 (1964).
27. R. Kania, supra note 22, at 63.
28. D. Black, Police Encounters and Social Organization: An Observation Study (1968) (Ph.D diss., U. Mich.).
29. A. Reiss, Jr., The Police and the Public, 159ff. (1971).
30. The motion picture Freebie and the Bean (1974) (edited and produced by Richard Rush, screenplay by Robert Kaufman) illustrates most vividly a heavy-handed, mooching police officer's abuse of merchants.
31. Cohen, supra note 8, at 30.
32. Meyer, Jr., A Descriptive Study of Police Corruption, 40 Police Chief, Aug. 1973, at 38-41.
33. M. Banton, supra note 23, at 221.
34. Michael Banton reports a similar scenario in which “a man… because he had given the police free meals, thought he could ignore the parking regulations; he was promptly disabused by this idea, and officers stopped visiting his premises.” See supra note 23, at 58.