Police perjury: A factorial survey.
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Title
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Police perjury: A factorial survey.
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Identifier
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AAI9959178
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identifier
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9959178
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Creator
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Foley, Michael Oliver.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Barry Spunt
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Date
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2000
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Criminology and Penology
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Abstract
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Lying is a common feature of modern life and is as common or more common than honesty (Douglas, 1976). The question we must ask ourselves, since lying is so common place, is whether lying is deviant or a socially acceptable norm. in either case there appears to be a tolerance level beyond which lying is not acceptable.;The use of lying and deception by police in their daily activities has been acknowledged, justified and approved by the Courts, police departments and society. The distinction between tolerated lying and reprehensible perjury in New York State is described in the Penal law. Despite this clear definition of perjury, the Mollen Commission Report (1994) on corruption in the New York City Police Department rarely used the term "perjury". It did recognize that police practices of falsification were so common that it spawned its own word "testilying". Testilying and falsifications are simply euphemisms for perjury.;This study, of five hundred eight (508) New York City police officers, utilizes the factorial survey method to determine the underlying conditions and circumstances that an officer would take into account in making a decision to commit perjury. More than one hundred police officers were interviewed and a subsequent focus group of six officers was conducted to identify nine dimensions and fifty levels as reasonable categories for the factorial survey. Respondents were given questionnaires containing twenty-four unique vignettes and asked to make a judgment on each one. Each vignette depicted a typical arrest situation that a police officer night encounter on a daily basis.;In anticipation that some officers would not have variability in their responses two additional instruments were included as an evaluation method, a neutralization scale (Sykes and Matza, 1957) and a short form of the Crowne-Marlowe Social Desirability (Lie) Scale (Reynolds, 1982).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
