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9780810832893

Police Mission Challenges and Responses

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  • ISBN13:

    9780810832893

  • ISBN10:

    0810832895

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-03-25
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Arvind Verma is associate professor of criminal justice at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Acknowledgments vii
Police Mission, Ideals, and Values
1(17)
Ideals of Excellent Companies versus Police Discipline
18(17)
Occupational Culture of Police
35(18)
Perspectives on Police Culture
53(75)
The Armed Police in the British Colonial Tradition: The Indian Perspective
128(17)
A Diagnosis of Police Organization
145(45)
Directions for Change: Police as a Learning Organization
190(8)
Human Values and Police Leadership
198(12)
Other Innovations and Experimentations
210(20)
Web Resources 230(1)
References 231(18)
Index 249(2)
About the Authors 251

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