Control In The Police Organization

Author : Maurice Punch
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Control in the Police Organization written by Maurice Punch and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1983 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this anthology examine how the police go about policing themselves in the real world. Police officers enjoy considerable autonomy and discretion, which makes strict accountability and close supervision the exception. In the lower ranks, mutual back-scratching, the code of silence, and the falsified report, can be used to cover up work avoidance, short-cut methods, illicit violence, and pay-offs. In spite of this, there are clearly constraints on police behavior in the form of both written and unwritten institutional controls. This book probes the various sources of organizational control, including: formal internal disciplinary regulations, the norms and values of the occupational culture, external legal constraints, and the overriding need to prevent scandals. The authors also suggest improving organizational control through managerial reforms to promote not just proficient bureaucrats, but leaders who possess insight into, and empathy for, the inescapable dilemmas of the men and women on the front lines.

Author : Matthew J. Giblin
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 150635226X
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership and Management in Police Organizations written by Matthew J. Giblin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built on a foundation of nearly 1,200 references, Leadership and Management in Police Organizations is a highly readable text that shows how organizational theory and behavior can be applied to improve the operations, leadership, and management of law enforcement. Author Matthew J. Giblin emphasizes leadership and management as separate skills in successful police supervisors and executives, illustrating to students how the two skills combine to improve individual and organizational efficacy in policing. Readers will come away with a stronger understanding of why organizational decisions matter and the impact research can have on police departments.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309289653
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-05-06 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because police are the most visible face of government power for most citizens, they are expected to deal effectively with crime and disorder and to be impartial. Producing justice through the fair, and restrained use of their authority. The standards by which the public judges police success have become more exacting and challenging. Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing explores police work in the new century. It replaces myths with research findings and provides recommendations for updated policy and practices to guide it. The book provides answers to the most basic questions: What do police do? It reviews how police work is organized, explores the expanding responsibilities of police, examines the increasing diversity among police employees, and discusses the complex interactions between officers and citizens. It also addresses such topics as community policing, use of force, racial profiling, and evaluates the success of common police techniques, such as focusing on crime "hot spots." It goes on to look at the issue of legitimacyâ€"how the public gets information about police work, and how police are viewed by different groups, and how police can gain community trust. Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing will be important to anyone concerned about police work: policy makers, administrators, educators, police supervisors and officers, journalists, and interested citizens.

Author : Sam S. Souryal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police Organization & Administration written by Sam S. Souryal and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward R. Maguire
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487903
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational Structure in American Police Agencies written by Edward R. Maguire and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most large police organizations perform the same tasks, there is tremendous variation in how individual organizations are structured. To account for this variation, author Edward R. Maguire develops a new theory that attributes the formal structures of large municipal police agencies to the contexts in which they are embedded. This theory finds that the relevant features of an organization's context are its size, age, technology, and environment. Using a database representing nearly four hundred of the nation's largest municipal police agencies, Maguire develops empirical measures of police organizations and their contexts and then uses these measures in a series of structural equation models designed to test the theory. Ultimately, police organizations are shown to be like other types of organizations in many ways but are also shown to be unique in a number of respects.

Author : Harry W. More
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managerial Control of the Police written by Harry W. More and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational and individual accountability is a requirement for law enforcement agencies and officers who, in a democracy, are thought to be responsible to the general public. This book examines two important functions in the control of police organizational and individual behavior, namely the internal audit and the internal affair. The first four chapters examine the basic philosophy of the social contract that police hold with the public, the management audit, and the use of the budget and 5-year plan as instruments of control. The second half of the book discusses areas of individual behavior including police accountability to law, conventional, and morality in a democracy; the problems officers encounter in the field; and the internal affair investigation. A case study of the Republic of China is used to analyze the function of the internal affair in a developing non-Western nation. The final chapter discusses citizens' recourse to the courts as a last resort to control law enforcement behavior.

Author : David Weisburd
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461383129
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police Innovation and Control of the Police written by David Weisburd and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order and Community brings together an impressive array of scholars and analysts to examine the impact of the development of crime control strategies on problems of police corruption and abuse. The text provides an historical overview of the development of legal control of the police, and examines the challenges that recent innovations, such as community or problem oriented policing present to the traditional, historical mechanisms for maintaining control of the police. Additionally, a comparative perspective is featured that draws upon the experiences of the Gorbachev era in the Soviet Union as well as on the history of European law enforcement over the last century. This book is instrumental for encouraging discussion and debate of police innovation and its impact on the ability of society to control the police abuse. In light of the Los Angeles riots of the Spring of 1992, scholars, practitioners, and students of crime prevention studies, criminology, and psychology will find this volume timely, topical, and provocative.

Author : George L. Kelling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police Accountability and Community Policing written by George L. Kelling and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Harrison Moore
Publisher : Police Executive Res Forum
ISBN 13 : 9781878734259
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Command and Control written by Mark Harrison Moore and published by Police Executive Res Forum. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the forces that are undermining the orthodoxy in police organization and management and presents a new way of thinking about the organization and management of police departments. The proposed method borrows the concept of corporate strategy from the private sector and adapts it for use in the public sector. The proposed application of a corporate strategy to police management involves the choice of purpose, the molding of organizational identity and character, the continuing definition of what needs to be done, and the mobilization of resources for the attainment of goals in the face of aggression competition or adverse circumstances. This book uses the concept of corporate strategy to help define the goals of policing. Another chapter analyzes how the police might conceive the management of their relations with the external environment followed by an examination of the implications of corporate strategy for the internal structure and operations of police departments. The final chapter looks to the future as it discusses the requirements for imaginative police leadership.

Author : American Bar Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570737138
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ABA Standards for Criminal Justice written by American Bar Association and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Project of the American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards Committee, Criminal Justice Section"--T.p. verso.