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Sworn to protect and serve,police officers who stray into deviant behavior may become a citizen’s worst nightmare. A thoughtful examination of the formal and informal process of becoming blue, **Cop Culture: Why Good Cops Go Bad** is a unique combination of academic research based on Chief Scott Silverii’s doctoral dissertation and more than two decades in law enforcement. The book seeks to answer the ultimate question: why do good cops become bad cops? Demonstrating the highly seductive and overwhelmingly influential culture of policing, the book presents interviews and observations by officers from across the country that explore how individuals may devolve into an aberrant subcultural fraternity. Chief Silverii explains the damaging effects upon the officers’ personal lives as they segregate from social and moral anchors and attach themselves to a lifestyle that may eventually bump up to criminality. Against the backdrop of the principles for organizational theory, acculturation, occupational socialization, and group culture, practical examples from real-life officers explain abstract ideals such as the "thin blue line" and the "code of silence." This book is the first of its ki

Who reads Cop Culture : Why Good Cops Go Bad?

Author

L. Scott Silverii, PhD

Publisher

CRC Press LLC

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781482221046

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Computer Science, Science

Rating

4.71 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14