Organizational Structure in American Police Agencies Context Complexity and Control 1st Edition by Edward Maguire ISBN 978-0791455128 0791455122
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ISBN 10: 0791455122
ISBN 13: 978-0791455128
Author: Edward R. Maguire
A new theory accounts for the characteristics of individual police departments.
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 to the contexts in which they are embedded. This theory finds that the relevant features of an organization’s context are its size, age, technology, and environment. Using a database representing nearly four hundred of the nation’s largest municipal police agencies, Maguire develops empirical measures of police organizations and their contexts and then uses these measures in a series of structural equation models designed to test the theory. Ultimately, police organizations are shown to be like other types of organizations in many ways but are also shown to be unique in a number of respects.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
CHAPTER 2
What is Organizational Structure?
CHAPTER 3
Explaining Organizational Structure
CHAPTER 4
Police Organizational Structure
CHAPTER 5
A Primitive Theory of Police Organizational Structure
CHAPTER 6
Methodology and Descriptive Statistics
CHAPTER 7
Testing the Theory
CHAPTER 8
Summary and Conclusions
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