Policing the Beat - The Impact of Organizational Scale on Patrol Officer Behavior in Urban Residential Neighborhoods

• NCJ Number: 79858
• Journal: Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 9 Issue: 5 Dated: (1981) Pages: 343-358
• Author(s): S Mastrofski
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 16 pages
• Grant Number(s): 78-NI-AX-0086; 80-IJ-CX-0040; NSF GI 43949
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)

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)