Organizational Structure In American Police Agencies

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 : Matthew J. Giblin
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 150635226X
Total Pages : 707 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 707 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 : Jeffrey Slovak
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814778755
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Styles of Urban Policing written by Jeffrey Slovak and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1988-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from 42 sizable American cities on their environments and police organizational structures, the book documents the importance of organizational structure on police action by predicting arrest rates for 2 types of serious criminal offenses. It applies this research perspective to neighborhoods in analyses of policing styles in three cities: Elyria, Ohio; Columbia, S.C.; and Newark, N.J. The study examines the kinds of data on police action available from a police dispatch log, as well as particular information recording processes used in the three sites. Two key indicators of police style are the rate of police aggressiveness and the degree to which local police work is legalistic, watchmanlike, or service-oriented. These measures are used to analyze variations in policing styles across both neighborhoods and cities, providing support to the theory that organization rather than environment determines local policing styles. This view receives additional support from indepth analyses of social, demographic, and economic characteristics of the three sites. Tables, references, and index.

Author : Keith Larson Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781339146867
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Rhetoric written by Keith Larson Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The larger question this study examines is; What factors explain variation in the level of police organizational commitment to change, as indicated by agencies implementing a strategic plan as planned?

Author : George W. Burruss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351026763
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Research on Police Organizations written by George W. Burruss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much research on policing focuses on individual officer decision making in the field, but officers are positioned within organizations. Organizational characteristics, including structures, policies, management, training, culture, traditions, and the environmental context affect individual officer behavior and attitudes. Recent high-profile controversies surrounding policing have generated interest in examining what factors may have led to current crises. In this book, contributors discuss how police department priorities are made; how departments respond to sexual assault complaints; how forensic scientists deal with job stress and satisfaction; how police use gun crime incident reviews for problem solving and information sharing; how police officers view the use of body-worn cameras given their perceptions of organizational justice; and how officers view their work culture. The purpose of this book is to give policy makers and scholars some guidance on the interplay between the individual and the organization. By understanding this dynamic, police administrators should be able to better devise reform efforts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Crime and Justice.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309084334
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( 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 2004-04-06 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 : Samuel Walker
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Police in America written by Samuel Walker and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2002 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Police in America" provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of policing in the United States today. Descriptive and analytical, the text is designed to offer undergraduate students a balanced and up-to-date overview of who the police are and what they do, the problems they face, and the many reforms and innovations that have taken place in policing. Using timely articles and excerpts, the authors take readers beyond the headlines and statistics to present a comprehensive and contemporary overview of what it means to be a police officer.

Author : Michael L. Birzer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466512962
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Leadership and Management in Law Enforcement written by Michael L. Birzer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective police organizations are run with sound leadership and management strategies that take into account the myriad of challenges that confront today‘s law enforcement professionals. Principles of Leadership and Management in Law Enforcement is a comprehensive and accessible textbook exploring critical issues of leadership within police agenci

Author : Sam S. Souryal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police Organization and Administration written by Sam S. Souryal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel E. Marks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780542458293
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing and Terrorism written by Daniel E. Marks and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines how 9/11 has impacted the organizational structure of state and local policing institutions in the United States. Content analyses of police discourse in two practitioner journals spanning from 1999 to 2004, as well as college level criminal justice textbooks issued in 2004 are used to determine the specific organizational changes that have been triggered by 9/11. Findings from the analyses indicate that change is occurring on both the internal organizational level and as well as on the level of organizational boundaries. Changes to internal structure, such as the creation of a counterterrorism unit, tend to occur only in the larger metropolitan and state police agencies, but are not present in the more common local departments. However, changes in organizational boundaries tend to be far more universal and typically involve an increased collaboration between police departments, specifically greater openness towards information sharing. The thesis concludes with an examination of the theoretical and policy implications of these findings.