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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455382603321

Autore

Wilson James Q

Titolo

Varieties of police behavior [[electronic resource] ] : the management of law and order in eight communities / / by James Q. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1968

ISBN

0-674-04520-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University

Disciplina

363.2/0973

Soggetti

Police - United States

Police administration - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical footnotes.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""ONE INTRODUCTION""; ""TWO THE PATROLMAN""; ""The Maintenance of Order""; ""Justice as a Constraint""; ""Some Organizational Consequences""; ""THREE THE POLICE ADMINISTRATOR""; ""Managing Discretion""; ""Critical Events""; ""FOUR POLICE DISCRETION""; ""The Determinants of Discretion""; ""The Eight Communities""; ""The Uses of Discretion""; ""FIVE THE WATCHMAN STYLE""; ""The Organizational Context""; ""Some Consequences""; ""SIX THE LEGALISTIC STYLE""; ""The Organizational Context""; ""Some Consequences""; ""SEVEN THE SERVICE STYLE""; ""The Organizational Context""

""Some Consequences""""EIGHT POLITICS AND THE POLICE""; ""Politics and the Watchman Style""; ""Politics and the Service Style""; ""Politics and the Legalistic Style""; ""Some Findings from National Data""; ""NINE CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""Index""