Police
Officer Stress & Agency Organizational Structure.
In order to keep law enforcement organizations operating at optimal
levels, administrators must be able to
identify the causes of dysfunctional stress on individual officers
and take effective action to ameliorate its effects.
Organizational
Communications
To provide information that can lead to beneficial improvement of intra-organizational
communications and information flow, a reduction of individual stressors
and an examination of the
general organizational structure. The Probation Office recognizes the
need to provide the individual
Probation Officers with as professional and
transparent an organization as possible.
Partitioning Political Actor Networks:
Some Quantitative Tools for Analyzing Qualitative Networks
This paper outlines ways in which qualitative and quantitative tools can
be used in a complementary fashion to delineate the structure of social networks.
November 1993 I wrote a Federal
grant application "Police Hiring Supplemental
Program" for Barberton Police (we didn't get it, Later
almost all police departments who wanted a federal grant received it,)
Aug. 1989 - May 1992 Project Director Justice
Center. I thought
the City should not be in the Jail business. Unfortunately, county jail
beds are very precious resource. But, Barberton needed, and still needs
a new police Building, not a jail, that's why I wrote this the way I did.
"Non-traditional Hiring of Police Officers in a Small Department." Paper presented at the 1994 national meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 8 - 12, 1994.
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