Jack St. Hilaire

Managing Policy and Reform in an Era of American Police Conflict (eBook, PDF)

Who Will Guard the Guardians?

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates and exposes the complex challenges facing law enforcement leaders and government officials with police reform, policies and standards, police accreditation, and police legitimacy in the eyes of the community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000925760
• Artikelnr.: 68308403

Autorenporträt

Jack St. Hilaire is a researcher, retired police officer, and United States Air Force veteran. He received a Master's Degree in Criminal Justice in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Sociology in 2018 from Boston University. Dr. St. Hilaire was a police officer in New Hampshire, Florida, and Massachusetts for 32 years in various roles, assignments, and positions. While at the Boston University Police Department, he supervised community policing, media relations, and policy development. He graduated from the GDBA Threat Assessment Academy at UCLA and conducted high-profile threat assessments for the university. He was also a certified on-site accreditation assessor of police agencies in Massachusetts, and during his tenure as the Accreditation Manager, the Boston University Police Department achieved both state police accreditation with MPAC and CALEA's advanced national police accreditation.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: Are All Professions Conspiracies Against the Laity?

• The Doctor's Dilemma

• The Power of Professions

• Bureaucracy and Public Administration

• Professionalizing the American Police

• Standards: What Are Best Practices?

CHAPTER TWO: Public Discontent: A Brief History of Police Reform

• The American Police Before the Progressive Era in American Politics

• The Professional Police Model

• Broken Windows and Evolving Strategies

• Police Accreditation in the United States

• The Research on Accreditation's Effect on the Police and other Institutions

CHAPTER THREE: The Role of Resources

• The Police Environment

• Police and Community Relations

• Defund the Police?

• Networks and Power

• Critical Resources

• Summary

CHAPTER FOUR: The Importance of Institutional Factors

• The Entrepreneurial Mindset in Law Enforcement

• Institutional Position and Power

• External Organizational Conflict

• Legal Mandates

• Legitimacy and Symbolic Value

• Myth and Ceremony

• Bureaucratic Standards and Norms

• Institutional Networks

• Professionalism

• Professional Development and Institutional Logic

• Summary

CHAPTER FIVE Strategic Choices and Contingencies

• The Sociopolitical Environment

• Organizational Change Driven by Symbiotic Relationship

• Internal Organizational Conflict

• Professional Membership and Associations

• Strategy

• Leadership, Adaptation, and Choice

• Management Tool

• Power

• Risk Management

• Summary

CHAPTER SIX: A Second Look at Police Organizations

• Factors That Shape Police Organizations

• A neo-Weberian State in Police Structure and Management

• New Public Management

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Role of Accreditation in Police Reform

• The Leadership Challenge: The Sword of Damocles

• Broken Taillights

• Is Police Reform an Illusion?

• The Myths and Realities of Police Accreditation

APPENDICES