NCJ Number
181447
Editor(s)
Milan Pagon
Date Published
1998
Length
602 pages
Annotation
Essays in this volume review organizational, managerial, and human resource aspects of policing in Central and Eastern Europe.
Abstract
The papers in this book were written by 80 authors from 17 countries. The book is divided into nine sections: (1) Core Issues and Challenges, including militarization tendencies in Central and Eastern European policing, the police and foreigners and police psychology; (2) Recruitment, Selection, Education, and Training; (3) Organizational and Management Issues, including policing under conditions of change and police officer-citizen communication; (4) Police Integrity, Corruption, and Deviance; (5) The Police and the Society; (6) Private Policing; (7) Police Managerial Tools: Research, Analysis, and Evaluation; (8) Police Research: Human Resources; The Victims, The Perpetrators, and the Public, including the value of humor in criminal justice work and confidence building between the police and the public; and (9) Stress in Police Work, including stressors in policing, comparison of managerial stress in the police and the private sector and coping and stress management for police officers. References, bibliographies, tables, cases cited, notes, figures