Police Reform from the Bottom Up : Officers and their Unions as Agents of Change

ISBN-13: 9780415686792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str.

Monique Marks; David Sklansky

Opis

What role can and should police unions and rank-and-file officers play in driving and shaping police reform? Police unions and their members are often viewed as obstructionist and conservative, not as change agents. But reform efforts are much more likely to succeed when they are supported by the rank-and-file, and line officers have knowledge, skills and insights that can be invaluable in promoting reform. Efforts to involve police unions and rank-and-file officers in police reform are less common than they should be, but they are increasing, and there is a good deal to learn about policing, police reform and participatory management from the efforts made to date. In this pioneering volume, an international, cross-disciplinary collection of scholars and police unionists address a range of neglected questions, both empirical and theoretical, about the place of police officers themselves in the process of reform -- what it has been, and what it could be. They provide a fresh view of police reform as occurring from the bottom up rather than the top down. This book will be highly useful for practitioners and scholars who have a serious interest in the possibilities and limits of police organisational change. This book is based on special issues of Police Practice and Research and Policing and Society.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Role of the Ranks and File and Police Unions in Police Reform Monique Marks and David Sklansky  Part 1: The Rank-and-File as Change Agents  2. Police Reform: Who Done It? David Bayley  3. Police Officers as Change Agents Hans Toch  4. From the Bottom up: Sharing Leadership in a Police Agency Brigitte Steinheider and Todd Wuestewald  5. Building the Capacity of Police Change Agents Jennifer Wood, Jenny Fleming and Monique Marks  6. Research for the Front Lines David Thatcher  Part 2: Police Unions and Police Reform  7. The Neglect of Police Unions Samuel Walker  8. Strange Union Jan Berry, Greg O’Connor, Maurice Punch and Paul Wilson  9. No Longer a ‘Workingman’s Paradise’? Mark Finnane  10. The Human Right of Police to Organize and Bargain Collectively Roy Adams  Part 3: Police Culture, Police Organization and the Possibilities of Change  11. Why Reforms Fail Wesley Skogan  12. Enduring Issues of Police Culture and Demographics Jerome Skolnick  13. Police and Social Democracy William Ken Muir