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

NCJ Number
79858
Author(s)
Date Published
January 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