Organizational Structure in American Police Agencies ― Context, Complexity, and Control

Maguire (administration of justice, George Mason U.) makes an important contribution to the existing limited body of theoretically oriented studies of police agencies as organizations. He reviews the theory of organizational structure , the four broad components of the context of OS size, age, technology, environment and the literature on police OS. He develops a new contextual theory of police OS, and applies the theory database for some 400 of the largest municipal police agencies in the U.S. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Edward R. Maguire is Associate Professor of Administration of Justice at George Mason University.