In search of police legitimacy
Subtitle: territoriality, isomorphism, and changes in policing practices
By: Jonathon A. Cooper
Series: Criminal justice: recent scholarship
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub., LLC
Published: 2014
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781593327248
Subjects: Police; Police misconduct; Police discretion; Organizational behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of tables; title: List of figures; title: Acknowledgments; title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: Organizational legitimacy and the policing mandate; title: Using isomorphism to explain aggregate police behavior; title: Measuring policing isomorphism : challenges and solutions; title: Crime and policing in DC; title: Examining territoriality and isomorphism; title: Examining social ecology and sovereigns; title: Towards a theoretical model of territorial isomorphism and policing; title: Future directions in policing practice and research; title: Appendix a: additional tables; title: Appendix b: additional figures; title: References; title: Index.