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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Maguire, Edward R.
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Colección:SUNY series in new directions in crime and justice studies.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252841
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is organizational structure?
  • Explaining organizational structure
  • Police organizational structure
  • A primitive theory of police organizational structure
  • Methodology and descriptive statistics
  • Testing the theory.