Organizational Structure in American Police Agencies
Context, Complexity, and Control
A new theory accounts for the characteristics of individual police departments.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 de…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-8790-7
- EAN: 9780791487907
- Produktnummer: 35072025
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 303 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'093 KB
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