Police Sexual Misconduct: Arrested Officers and Their Victims

Stinson, Philip M; Brewer, Steven L.; Mathna, Brooke E.; Liederbach, John; Englebrecht, Christine M.

doi:10.1080/15564886.2014.939798

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“…We also found that courts were more likely to convict an officer of a profit-motivated crime in cases where the officer had lost his or her job after being arrested. Prior research has shown that police officers are likely to be convicted in cases where they lost their jobs after being charged with serious crimes involving acts of police sexual violence (Stinson, Brewer, Mathna, Liederbach, & Englebrecht, 2014). Officers are unlikely to be convicted or lose their job, however, when charged with less serious crimes such as drunk driving or incidents involving acts of officerinvolved domestic violence Stinson, Liederbach, Brewer, & Todak, 2014).…”

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To protect and collect: a nationwide study of profit-motivated police crime

Stinson

Liederbach

Buerger

et al. 2018

Criminal Justice Studies

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This study is part of a larger research project on police crime in the United States. Police crimes are those criminal offenses committed by sworn law enforcement officers who have the general powers of arrest. Profit-motivated police crime involves officers who use their authority of position to engage in crime for personal gain. This study reports the findings on 1,591 cases where a law enforcement officer was arrested for one or more profit-motivated crimes during the seven-year period 2005-2011. The profit-motivated arrest cases involved 1,396 individual officers employed by 782 state, local, special, constable, and tribal law enforcement agencies located in 531 counties and independent cities in 47 states and the District of Columbia. Our data is the first systematic study of profit-motivated police crime. The study describes the nature of this form of police misconduct in terms of several dimensions, including the characteristics of police who perpetrate these crimes, where it occurs, the specific criminal charges, and the contexts within which profit-motivated police crime is punished through police agencies and the criminal courts.

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To protect and collect: a nationwide study of profit-motivated police crime

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Liederbach

Buerger

et al. 2018

Criminal Justice Studies

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“…First, although grand juries typically comply with indictment requests (17), police officers are rarely indicted for severe actions, such as police shootings (18). Between 2005 and 2011, 41 officers were charged with manslaughter or murder in connection with on-duty shootings; during the same period, about 2,700 justified homicides by police were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (19). Second, participants made decisions individually (rather than in groups, as do real grand jurors).…”

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Body camera footage leads to lower judgments of intent than dash camera footage

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Caruso

Dilich³

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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SignificanceSurveillance video from body cams and dash cams is increasingly used by police organizations to enhance accountability, and yet little is known about their effects on observer judgment. Across eight experiments, body cam footage produced lower judgments of intent in observers than did dash cam footage, in part, because the body cam (vs. dash cam) visual perspective reduces the visual salience of the focal actor. This research informs public policy regarding the interpretation of video surveillance methods of police conduct.

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“…For men and Trans people, reporting rates of rape are lower and greatly undercounted in prison records (Robertson, 2003). Similar trends are found in the documented arrests of police officers in the U.S. Of the 545 cases of arrests of police officers for sex-related crimes between 2005 to 2007, over half (51.3%) were arrested for sexual misconduct on duty or when acting in an official capacity, 32.2% for forcible or statutory rape, 19.5% for forcible fondling and 10% statutory rape (Stinson et al, 2015).…”

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Silencing Prisoner Protests: Criminology, Black Women and State-sanctioned Violence

Gatewood

Norris

2019

DCJ

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Protests and resistance from those locked away in jails, prisons and detention centers occur but receive limited, if any, mainstream attention. In the United States and Canada, 61 instances of prisoner unrest occurred in 2018 alone. In August of the same year, incarcerated men and women in the United States planned nineteen days of peaceful protest to improve prison conditions. Complex links of institutionalized power, white supremacy and Black resistance is receiving renewed attention; however, state-condoned violence against women in correctional institutions (e.g., physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and medical neglect by prison staff) is understudied. This qualitative case study examines 10 top-tier Criminology journals from 2008-2018 for the presence of prisoner unrest/protest. Findings reveal a paucity of attention devoted to prisoner unrest or state-sanctioned violence. This paper argues that the invisibility of prisoner unrest conceals the breadth and depth of state-inflicted violence against prisoners, especially marginalized peoples. This paper concludes with a discussion of the historical legacy and contemporary invisibility of Black women’s resistance against state-inflicted violence. This paper argues that in order to make sense of and tackle state-condoned violence we must turn to incarcerated individuals, activists, and Black and Indigenous thinkers and grassroots actors.

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Police Sexual Misconduct: Arrested Officers and Their Victims

Cited by 20 publications

References 55 publications

To protect and collect: a nationwide study of profit-motivated police crime

To protect and collect: a nationwide study of profit-motivated police crime

Body camera footage leads to lower judgments of intent than dash camera footage

Silencing Prisoner Protests: Criminology, Black Women and State-sanctioned Violence

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