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Venessa Garcia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Constructing the ‘other’ within Police culture: an analysis of a deviant unit within the Police Organization
    Police Practice and Research, 2005
    Co-Authors: Venessa Garcia
    Abstract:

    As a society, we aggregate and dichotomize ourselves by implying that sharing a master status effectively binds a set of people together. Dichotomization constructs an image of a mythical ‘other’ who is not at all like ‘us’ and may result in stigmatization and leveling of sanctions against those who occupy the ‘other’ status. Research has revealed a Police culture that promotes a ‘we–they’ paradox within the larger community. This research goes a step further in examining how Police culture invokes this paradox within the Police Organization itself. In particular, it examines how Police culture stigmatizes and sanctions, or penalizes, community Police officers who engage in ‘social service’ work. The study revealed that feelings of stigma were determined by lack of agency support and officer ridicule and resulted in high levels of agency penalty.

  • “Difference” in the Police Department: Women, Policing, and “Doing Gender”
    Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2003
    Co-Authors: Venessa Garcia
    Abstract:

    In this article, the author reviews the concept of gender “difference” in relation to the criminal justice system. The author argues that the acceptance of women as different and the practice of doing gender, although initially allowing women entrance into the Police Organization, has continued to keep women Police in subordinate positions and, thus, creates conflict. To illustrate, the author analyzes research on the history of the entrance of women into the Police Organization as well as their experiences and conflicts. The research reveals that without the acceptance of the doctrine that women are different and more humanistic than men, the Police Organization might not have accepted the issues of women and children (issues of social service) as Police responsibility. However, the continual practice of women Police as different has created conflict within the Police Organization and worked to keep women Police within the lower ranks of the Organization.

James J. Willis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • making sense of body worn cameras in a Police Organization a technological frames analysis
    Police Practice and Research, 2020
    Co-Authors: Marthinus C Koen, James J. Willis
    Abstract:

    This case study of a small Police agency in the United States uses semi-structured interviews, a patrol officer survey, and observations, to examine the technological frames of managers and users f...

  • Police Organization continuity and change into the twenty first century
    Crime and Justice, 2010
    Co-Authors: Stephen D. Mastrofski, James J. Willis
    Abstract:

    Abstract American policing demonstrates both continuity and change. A high degree of decentralization persists, as do bureaucratic structures of larger Police agencies. The structures and practices of the nation’s numerous small agencies remain underexamined. The potential growth of professional structures inside and outside the Police Organization is largely unexplored. The core Police patrol technology has remained essentially unchanged for decades, and early Police adaptations to information technology have not yet profoundly altered policing structures and processes in easily observable ways. The demography and education levels of Police workers are changing, but the consequences are not obvious. Police culture has long been under siege. Current reforms attempt to reduce the occupation’s isolation from the communities it serves and the scientific community that presumably serves it. Mechanisms and styles for governing Police retain considerable variation, but the growing role of grassroots community g...

  • Police Organization Continuity and Change: Into the Twenty‐first Century
    Crime and Justice, 2010
    Co-Authors: Stephen D. Mastrofski, James J. Willis
    Abstract:

    Abstract American policing demonstrates both continuity and change. A high degree of decentralization persists, as do bureaucratic structures of larger Police agencies. The structures and practices of the nation’s numerous small agencies remain underexamined. The potential growth of professional structures inside and outside the Police Organization is largely unexplored. The core Police patrol technology has remained essentially unchanged for decades, and early Police adaptations to information technology have not yet profoundly altered policing structures and processes in easily observable ways. The demography and education levels of Police workers are changing, but the consequences are not obvious. Police culture has long been under siege. Current reforms attempt to reduce the occupation’s isolation from the communities it serves and the scientific community that presumably serves it. Mechanisms and styles for governing Police retain considerable variation, but the growing role of grassroots community g...

Tracy Salvage - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Kathryn R. Gabriele - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Research and Planning Units An Innovation Instrument in the 21st-Century Police Organization
    Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2016
    Co-Authors: Brenda J. Bond, Kathryn R. Gabriele
    Abstract:

    Police research and planning units have been in existence for decades, yet little is known about these types of Organizational functions. This study compared research and planning staffing arrangements within American Police Organizations with the reported implementation of innovative practices to assess the association between unit existence and innovative practice. Utilizing a national survey of Police practices, we found that agencies with formal research and planning units reported significantly greater levels of innovative practices than those without units. This study suggests that investing in research and planning may have a positive influence on the adoption of innovative Police practices. As expectations for more progressive and sophisticated policing intensifies, then a promising pathway may be building the internal capacity via research and planning-type functions. Results from this study are of value to leaders and researchers who want to understand the Organizational mechanisms that support ...

E. R. Petersen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • An information processing model of a Police Organization
    Management Science, 1991
    Co-Authors: B. W. Simms, E. R. Petersen
    Abstract:

    A model has been developed to study economic decision making in Police Organizations. The conceptual viewpoint taken is that Police Organizations are information processing systems, with activities connected in a communication network. The resulting model is process-oriented, and Organizational decisions are analyzed by studying how the Police force senses, learns about, and solves a stream of criminal events. Search theory is used to model the information processing activities and to study the value of unit memory, communication between units and the coordination of two or more units. A computer model links the units and activities in a simulation of the Police force Organization. Examples based on a municipal Police force are used to highlight the concepts of the model building approach. The implementation of the computer model using Police force data is reported.