Organizational Theories Associated With Policing



Organizational Theories Associated With Policing

No country, region or state can govern properly without having and enforcing the legitimate policies, and law enforcement agencies to regularize their respective institutions and communities. Same is the case with police organizations. They need to have an appropriate organizational theory that is consistent with their operations.

Three different theories have been proposed by the scholars to examine and analyze the organizational pattern and operational structure of policing. These theories include the contingency theory, the resource dependency theory and the institutional theory. According to the contingency theory, organizations are structured in such ...