Michael A. Caldero was a former Police Officer who presented seminars on the subject of police ethics to police commanders across the United States. He taught in the Department of Administration of Criminal Justice at Bellevue College.

Jeffrey D. Dailey is an Associate Professor of Border Security and Intelligence at Angelo State University. Prior to this he performed classified computer-aided military intelligence signal analysis (SIGINT) with active duty Army and Air Force intelligence units in several locations.

Brian L. Withrow is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. Prior to joining the Texas State University faculty in 2009, Brian was an Associate Professor and Director of Forensic Sciences at Wichita State University.

Part 1: Value-Based Decision-Making and the Ethics of Noble Cause

1. Value-Based Decision-Making: Understanding the Ethics of Noble Cause

2. Values, Hiring, and Early Organizational Experiences

3. Values and Administrative Dilemmas

4. The Social Psychology of Cops' Values

Part 2: Noble-Cause Corruption

5. From Economic to Noble-Cause Corruption

6. Stress, Organizational Accountability, and the Noble Cause

7. Ethics and the Means-Ends Dilemma

8. Police Culture, Ends-Orientation, and Noble-Cause Corruption

Part 3: Ethics and Police in a Time of Change

9. Policing Citizens, Policing Communities: Toward an Ethic of Negotiated Order

10. The Stakes

11. Recommendations

12. Conclusion: The Noble Cause