What is the best management style for the police? Police Mission discusses the values and norms inherent in the American police mission, and examines how police respond to challenges that arise while attempting to uphold this mission. It reveals that the way officers are being trained in ethics and human relations are not effective as they could be, and argues that policing has to move towards a greater emphasis on human values, moral sensitivity, and discerning judgment.
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.
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By Das and Verma
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 1 Police Mission, Ideals, and Values
Chapter 4 2 Ideals of Excellent Companies versus Police Discipline
Chapter 5 3 Occupational Culture of the Police
Chapter 6 4 Perspectives on Police Culture
Chapter 7 5 The Armed Police in the British Colonial Tradition: The Indian Perspective
Chapter 8 6 A Diagnosis of Police Organization
Chapter 9 7 Directions for Change: Police as Learning Organization
Chapter 10 8 Human Values and Police Leadership
Chapter 11 9 Other Innovations and Experimentations
Chapter 12 Web Resources
Chapter 13 References
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 15 About the Authors