Police Leadership and Administration: A 21st-Century Strategic Approach [Paperback]

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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Police Leadership and Administration?

Chapter 2: Administration, Authority, and Command?

Chapter 3: Police Leadership?

Chapter 4: Setting Strategic Direction?

Chapter 5: Managing Change and Culture?

Chapter 6: Strategic Analysis?

Chapter 7: Strategic Planning?

Chapter 8: Strategic Operations?

Chapter 9: Human Resource Management?

Chapter 10: Measuring Police Performance?

Chapter 11: Maintaining Integrity and Professional Standards?

Chapter 12: Creating Safe Communities?

Chapter 13: Future Challenges and Concerns?

This innovative text adapts the strategic management process to the police organizational environment, illustrating how to tailor responses to the unique problems and issues that professionals are likely to face in the field of law enforcement.

Gennaro F. Vito is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville. He also serves as a faculty member in the Administrative Officers Course at the Southern Police Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from The Ohio State University. Active in professional organizations, he is a past President and Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and recipient of its Bruce Smith Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to criminal justice as an academic or professional. He has published on topics including capital sentencing, police consolidation, police traffic stops, policing strategies for drug problems in public housing, attitudes toward capital punishment, and the effectiveness of criminal justice programs, such as drug elimination programs, drug courts, and drug testing of probationers and parolees. He has made more thanl)