This book addresses the various strategies that are available to police management, such as consolidation, regionalization, and amalgamation of police agencies; new public management (NPM); enhanced performance management; civilianization; and organizational restructuring. It fills the gap in the research as to how police agencies have reacted to the environmental and fiscal changes since the 1980s. The book examines the strategies employed and the effect on police and their delivery of service.
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This volume aims to provide government, criminal justice and policing administrators, policy makers and criminal justice scholars and researchers with comprehensive analyses of the critical issues impacting the challenges inherent in ...
Law enforcement professionals, re-searchers, planners, policymakers, and stakeholders at all levels can use this text as a significant resource in the development of performance-based management that stresses accountability, competence and ...
Topics covered include police values, police culture, police accountability, police leadership, policies and procedures.
Some of the principal dimensions of such a comparison will be sketched in this essay.
This is a must-have for students, lecturers, researchers and professionals in police studies, criminology and criminal justice.
Anexample of this istheBrixton riotsof 1981 andthe subsequent report published by LordScarman (Scarman 1981). Brown (1998) illustrates how theoccupational culturecandevelop subcultures. Subcultures form whenindividuals embrace different ...
This book is designed at all levels of warranted officer and speaks to undergraduate and postgraduate policing students with a range of pedagogic features including seminar and exam questions.
A Guidebook for Law Enforcement focuses on police call management strategies and how they affect community policing today.
Three major issues often dominate current discussions among researchers and professionals concerned with the police: What are the efects of the police working environment on individual officers? How can police...