Description
This comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date book relates key advances in management and organization theory to policing in Britain and America.
The book addresses policing problems from the point of view of those who have the responsibility for managing police organizations. The authors examine the role of management in the police service, identifying the major problems and dilemmas faced by police managers and providing an analysis of these together with an evaluation of present systems of accountability and control of the police. Drawing upon theories and works from the sociology of policing, constitutional law, criminology, management theory and organizational behavior, the authors aim to articulate the issues attendant upon the relation- ships between police bureaucracy, local and central government, the criminal justice system and the wider policed community.
Arguing for the reform of present police structures and for a re- appraisal of police management, the book aims to be both thought-provoking and challenging while maintaining a sympathetic and under- standing attitude towards the difficult task facing the police and police managers.
ISBN: 0745000290
