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

By Eugene A. Paoline III. 2006

117 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• An Examination of the Workplace Experiences of Police Patrol Officers: The Role of Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation (2009, background): “Although formal police organizational structures tend to be similar (Crank, 2003; Maguire, 2002), the informal structures and organizational cultures of police departments tend to vary markedly (Hassell, 2006; Paoline, 2003).”
• The Influence of Mandatory Arrest Policies, Police Organizational Characteristics, and Situational Variables on the Probability of Arrest in Domestic Violence Cases (2005, background): “One solution to this dilemma is offered by Maguire (2003), who points out that there exists two clusters of dimensions of organizational structures: structural complexity and structural control (see also Hall, 2002).”