NCJ Number
79858
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 9 Issue: 5 Dated: (1981) Pages: 343-358
Date Published
1981
Length
16 pages
Annotation
Analysis of police organization and activity in 42 urban residential neighborhoods shows some support for the hypothesis that small-scale police organization is more likely to engender service-style policing than large-scale structure.
Abstract
The relationship between organizational scale and service-style policing is more ambiguous in high violence neighborhoods than low violence neighborhoods, and the effects in all cases are modest. (Author abstract)
Date Published: January 1, 1981
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