Mapping Police Organizational Change - From a Mechanistic Toward an Organic Model

• NCJ Number: 85179
• Journal: Criminology Volume: 20 Issue: 2 Dated: (August 1982) Pages: 241-256
• Author(s): J Kuykendall; R R Roberg
• Date Published: 1982
• Length: 16 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Revision of a paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Meeting, San Francisco, November 1980

Annotation

Community police organizations have been the focus of substantial research since the 1960s. This article describes mechanistic and organic model constructs and relates them to both continuum and matrix change perspectives and a change problem-intervention strategy typology.

Abstract

The matrix and typology are used to 'map' the change process associated with team policing, which is one example of attempts to make police organizations more organic. (Publisher abstract)