NCJ Number
151258
Date Published
1989
Length
524 pages
Annotation
Written for both students and practitioners, this volume details police administration from several perspectives and in terms of theory, practice, recent trends, and contemporary issues.
Abstract
The initial section focuses on topics crucial to understanding the unique features of police administration, including the development and environment of police administration, the nature of police work, police goals and objectives, police organizational tasks, and the role of the police executive. Police administration is next considered from several perspectives: a systems perspective, a traditional, structural perspective; a human behavioral perspective; and a strategic management perspective. Individual sections focus on police goals and systems, organizational tasks, the internal and external roles of police executives, executive styles, principles of police organization, functions of police management, police policies and procedures, and the individual and groups in police organizations. Further sections examine police leadership, communications and information systems, the evaluation of police performance, police strategies and tactics, and police organizational improvement. Six case studies are included that present organizational problems and situations and can be examined in terms of the conceptual and theoretical tools introduced in the text. Index and chapter discussion questions, cases, and reference lists