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Police Mission : Challenges and Responses
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Das.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime prevention--Philosophy.
- Law enforcement--Philosophy.
- Police--United States.
- Police administration--United States.
- Police subculture--United States.
- Police.
- Police--Philosophy--United States.
- Police subculture--Philosophy--United States.
- Police subculture.
- Police administration.
- Crime prevention.
- Law enforcement.
- Local Subjects:
- Crime prevention--Philosophy.
- Law enforcement--Philosophy.
- Police--United States.
- Police administration--United States.
- Police subculture--United States.
- Police.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span>A large number of themes ranging from personnel management, occupational culture, and innovative experiments in US policing techniques are examined. Several organizational theories as well as examples of international policing efforts from England to Japan are also analyzed. An important contribution to police literature, this book will be a valuable aid to students of criminology as well as practitioners and researchers of police science.</span></span>
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Police Mission, Ideals, and Values; 2. Ideals of Excellent Companies versus Police Discipline; 3. Occupational Culture of Police; 4. Perspectives on Police Culture; 5. The Armed Police in the British Colonial Tradition: The Indian Perspective; 6. A Diagnosis of Police Organization; 7. Directions for Change: Police as a Learning Organization; 8. Human Values and Police Leadership; 9. Other Innovations and Experimentations; Web Resources; References; Index; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-34854-2
- 0-585-47994-1
- OCLC:
- 853360644
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