CRM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Community Organizing, Ion, Role Conflict

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 100
• Professor: Anne- Marie Singh

Document Summary

Organization of police forces: bureaucratic, professional/reform model of policing is characterized by 4 organizational characteristics, the hierarchical differentiation with the chief holding the highest rank and, functional differentiation with job specifications to better deal with crime constable holding the lowest problems, the routinization of procedures and practices, the centralization of command in which ultimate authority rests at the top of the police hierarchy , though these characteristics remain in place today, most police forces have attempted to shift their focus towards a community policing perspective, community policing in theory limits the top down approach by eliminating middle managers and giving patrol officers more discretion, police departments are organized into different roles to allow them to operate more efficiently, complaints arise surrounding this model because it does not meet the social needs, number and complexity of police divisions and lack of clear of the contemporary society. relationship/communication leads to internal problems.