TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of the rank and file in police reform
AU - Sklansky, David Alan
AU - Marks, Monique
PY - 2008/3
Y1 - 2008/3
N2 - Police departments today are more attractive places than they used to be for experiments in participatory management and other forms of workforce empowerment, but experiments of this kind in law enforcement remain disappointingly rare. The articles in this special issue, drawn from an international, cross-disciplinary conference on ‘police reform from the bottom up,’ highlight the potential benefits of giving rank-and-file officers a larger collective voice in the shaping of their work, as well as some of the difficulties of doing so, and the conditions under which it is most likely to succeed.
AB - Police departments today are more attractive places than they used to be for experiments in participatory management and other forms of workforce empowerment, but experiments of this kind in law enforcement remain disappointingly rare. The articles in this special issue, drawn from an international, cross-disciplinary conference on ‘police reform from the bottom up,’ highlight the potential benefits of giving rank-and-file officers a larger collective voice in the shaping of their work, as well as some of the difficulties of doing so, and the conditions under which it is most likely to succeed.
KW - Participatory management
KW - Police management
KW - Police rank and file
KW - Police unionism
KW - Policy diversity
KW - Workplace democracy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052760088&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10439460701718484
DO - 10.1080/10439460701718484
M3 - Article
SN - 1043-9463
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Policing and Society
JF - Policing and Society
IS - 1
ER -