Environment and organization : reviving a perspective on the police
By: KLINGER, David A
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2004The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 593, p. 119-136Abstract: Police researchers have largely ignored the role that organizational and environmental factors play in determining how officers behave during interactions with citizens. This has resulted in a body of policing knowledge that contains little information about how and why police practices are affected by features of the agencies officers work for and forces outside police departments. This article points out the consequences of this dearth of knowledge for understanding what the police do and why they do it, reviews the limited literature on organizational and environmental determinants of police activity, and calls for a research program that views interface between police organizations and their environments as a central question
Police researchers have largely ignored the role that organizational and environmental factors play in determining how officers behave during interactions with citizens. This has resulted in a body of policing knowledge that contains little information about how and why police practices are affected by features of the agencies officers work for and forces outside police departments. This article points out the consequences of this dearth of knowledge for understanding what the police do and why they do it, reviews the limited literature on organizational and environmental determinants of police activity, and calls for a research program that views interface between police organizations and their environments as a central question
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