Police organizational cultures and patrol practices / Kimberly D. Hassell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hassell, Kimberly D.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--United States.

Police.

Police patrol--United States.

Police patrol.

Organizational behavior--United States.

Organizational behavior.

Law enforcement--United States.

Law enforcement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hassell studies police organizational cultures and patrol practices through close participant observation in a large, municipal Midwestern police department. Her work uncovers that organizational cultures are formed at the precinct level. Police patrol practices, concomitantly, vary markedly within this police organization at the precinct level of analysis. Not only were these patterns observed, but police patrol officers overwhelmingly agree that the organizational cultures and police patrol practices vary at the sub-organizational level of the precinct. Furthermore, this study shows some support for David Klinger's (1997) causal model of police behavior ("Negotiating Order in Patrol") but the overall utility of the model, in this context, is weak.

Contents:

Introduction

Research on police patrol practices

Negotiating order in patrol

Methodological design

Variation in police organizational culture

Variation in police patrol practices

Conclusions and implications for future research.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.

ISBN:

1-59332-220-8

OCLC:

568006517