Police Mission Challenges and Responses

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.

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

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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Police Mission Challenges and Responses

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