Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 232
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4422-0636-6 • Hardback • August 2012 • $101.00 • (£78.00)
978-1-4422-0638-0 • eBook • August 2012 • $96.00 • (£74.00)
Marilyn Corsianos is professor of criminology and sociology at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of Policing and Gendered Justice, which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, and the coeditor of Interrogating Social Justice. She has written numerous articles on policing, power and social inequalities.
Preface
Chapter 1: Police Corruption: From the Introduction of Formal Policing Systems to Today
Chapter 2: Interrogating Police Corruption and the Organization as Enabler
Chapter 3: The Role of the Masculinist Police Culture in Corruption
Chapter 4: Critical Dilemmas in Police Behavior
Chapter 5: Media Constructions of Police Corruption
Chapter 6: Increasing Police Accountability through Community Policing
Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks
Too often, gendered study means looking at women. This pathbreaking work on police corruption incorporates insights from masculinities studies and cultural criminology to show that corruption is a gendered activity that is intertwined with hegemonic masculinity. Marilyn Corsianos adds immeasurably to the study of policing through her demonstration that police culture and the media shape police hypermasculinity. Her suggestions that the Community Policing Model can reduce both patriarchal influence and corruption are especially provocative.
— Martin D. Schwartz, George Washington University
Corsianos tackles police corruption and misconduct through a number of lenses, including the one that has been most necessary and ignored, the role of masculinity.
— Joanne Belknap, University of Colorado
- First book-length treatment of police corruption and gender
- Examines the relationship between hegemonic masculinity, gendered risk, and police corruption
- Addresses the challenging question of why more men are involved in police abuses than women
- Includes interview excerpts with former police officers about their experiences with and perceptions of corruption
- Analyzes the moral ambiguities that arise when officers act in corrupt ways that comply with popular hyper-masculine views of how police should act