Organizational structure in American police agencies : context, complexity, and control /
"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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | SUNY series in new directions in crime and justice studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252841 |
| Summary: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417519371 9781417519378 0791455114 9780791455111 0791455122 9780791455128 9780791487907 0791487903 |