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Traditional innovative concepts of police administration are examined in writings focusing primarily on alternatives to the quasi-military administrative style. The text presents background material on the status of police administration and suggests new directions that police agencies may take to improve the quality of law enforcement. Two alternatives to the classical organizational arrangement -- the human relations perspective (decentralization, participative-democratic leadership and decisionmaking) and the systems approach (data systems, identification of goals, control and coordination based on data analysis) -- are emphasized. The writings are divided into five areas: perspectives on the role of the police and of police administration; the police organization; organizational behavior in police systems; control processes in the police organization; and changing the police organization

Author

[edited] by Larry K. Gaines and Truett A. Ricks

Publisher

West Publishing Company, College & School Division

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780829901634

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Social_sciences