...Chang‐Hun Lee; Jung‐Mi Kim; Jong‐Gil Kim Purpose The aim of the current study is three‐fold: it aims to empirically investigates the relationship between officers' perceptions on organizational structure and preventive policing practices (PPP) in the South Korean context; it attempts to find what...

... observed suggest that there was only a very limited relationship between local political culture and the five principal dimensions of organizational structure — formalization, centralization, functional differentiation, specialization differentiation, and occupational differentiation derived from Peter...

...Edward R. Maguire Purpose This paper aims to explore the effects of formal police organizational structure on child sexual abuse case attrition. Design/methodology/approach Data from two surveys were merged for this analysis: a 1988 survey of child abuse enforcement in US police departments...