Research Catalog

Title

Police corruption and psychological testing : a strategy for pre-employment screening / Natalie L. Claussen-Rogers and Bruce A. Arrigo.

Author

Claussen-Rogers, Natalie L.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Arrigo, Bruce A.

Description

xiv, 196 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Police corruption is a growing ethical and occupational problem in many precincts and departments around the country. Despite this, effective pre-employment strategies designed to predict, explain, and prevent it are lacking. This book aims to fill this troubling gap in the academic and popular literature. By canvassing the relevant research on typologies, causes, and profiles of officer misconduct and by reviewing the social science literature on personality assessment, the role of antisocial behavior and conscientiousness, especially in relation to overall job performance, is thoroughly and systematically examined in the text. At issue here is the creation of a workable, testable, and practical pre-employment screening strategy for would-be law enforcement personnel that reliably and validly identifies candidates who likely would be disruptive and deviant while on the job and, thus, prone to acts of corruption and other integrity-based violations while in the field. This text applies its proposed testing methodology to the controversial and well-publicized case of Robert Phillip Hanssen, a former FBI agent convicted of treason and espionage for revealing classified intelligence information about U.S. surveillance efforts (and undercover operatives) around the world. The analysis of Hanssen reveals that the authors' approach to psychological testing and officer corruption is more comprehensive and more all-encompassing than any other assessment protocol available today that investigates personality traits related to police job performance. Relevant to the disciplines of criminal justice and psychology, this book can be used as a supplemental text in several undergraduate and graduate courses, such as criminal psychology, policing and society, criminal behavior, law enforcement administration, criminal justice policy, and profiling offenders.

Subject

• Police > Selection and appointment
• Police recruits > Psychological testing
• Employee screening
• Police corruption > Prevention
• Police psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Policing and corruption : typologies, causes, and profiles -- Antisocial behavior and conscientiousness : towards an understanding of pre-employment screening -- Psychological testing and the pre-employment screening of law enforcement personnel -- Testing the model : some methodological considerations -- The case of Robert P. Hanssen : a psychological portrait -- The pre-employment screening process in action : a detailed and systematic application -- Police corruption, psychological testing, and the case of Robert P. Hanssen : in search of meaning -- Implications, recommendations, and conclusions.

ISBN

0890897549

LCCN

^^2004016557

OCLC

• 55962222
• SCSB-11404047

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library