Police Mission: Challenges and Responses

by Dilip K. Das, Arvind Verma

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810832893
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/25/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.68(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Dilip K. Das is Professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Arvind Verma is assistant professor of criminal justice at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Table of Contents

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