Dennis C Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4401329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis C Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis C |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Perspectives on Knowledge Converted into Action
Making management count
What can we expect from performance management activities that we cannot expect from performance measurement
Above the Law
Police Attitudes and Performance
Residency laws are a recurrent controversy in local government. While many of the argu ments are economic, proponents of residency requirements also expect resident employees to have more positive attitudes and greater dedication toward the jurisdiction. In this study of residency, police performance, and officer attitudes, which uses data from a com parative study of departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area, some evidence of a re lationshi…
In Pursuit of Safety
Community safety and police services production processes manifest diverse patterns within and between jurisdictions. Using data from a comparative study of policing in sixty neighborhoods, distributed across three metropolitan areas, an analytic typology of modes or patterns of citizen‐police production activities is derived and proposed for use in subsequent productivity analysis. Detailed descriptions of policing and citizen safety related act…
Dangers of police professionalization
On the Fate of "Lilliputs" in Metropolitan Policing
An extravagant number of miniscule local governments hurts in many ways. Lilliputian governments essentially lack the territory and population to solve areawide problems, or to render effective services.... Fragmented local government also means splintered law enforcement, with overlapping jurisdictions, petty jealousies and rivalries, poor or nonexistent communications networks, inadequate training ....2
Standing by Their Conclusion
On the Fate of "Lilliputs" in Metropolitan Policing
An extravagant number of miniscule local governments hurts in many ways. Lilliputian governments essentially lack the territory and population to solve areawide problems, or to render effective services.... Fragmented local government also means splintered law enforcement, with overlapping jurisdictions, petty jealousies and rivalries, poor or nonexistent communications networks, inadequate training ....2
Dangers of police professionalization
Making management count
In Pursuit of Safety
Community safety and police services production processes manifest diverse patterns within and between jurisdictions. Using data from a comparative study of policing in sixty neighborhoods, distributed across three metropolitan areas, an analytic typology of modes or patterns of citizen‐police production activities is derived and proposed for use in subsequent productivity analysis. Detailed descriptions of policing and citizen safety related act…
On the Fate of "Lilliputs" in Metropolitan Policing
An extravagant number of miniscule local governments hurts in many ways. Lilliputian governments essentially lack the territory and population to solve areawide problems, or to render effective services.... Fragmented local government also means splintered law enforcement, with overlapping jurisdictions, petty jealousies and rivalries, poor or nonexistent communications networks, inadequate training ....2
Standing by Their Conclusion
Dangers of police professionalization
Police Attitudes and Performance
Residency laws are a recurrent controversy in local government. While many of the argu ments are economic, proponents of residency requirements also expect resident employees to have more positive attitudes and greater dedication toward the jurisdiction. In this study of residency, police performance, and officer attitudes, which uses data from a com parative study of departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area, some evidence of a re lationshi…
In Pursuit of Safety
Community safety and police services production processes manifest diverse patterns within and between jurisdictions. Using data from a comparative study of policing in sixty neighborhoods, distributed across three metropolitan areas, an analytic typology of modes or patterns of citizen‐police production activities is derived and proposed for use in subsequent productivity analysis. Detailed descriptions of policing and citizen safety related act…
Above the Law
Making management count
What can we expect from performance management activities that we cannot expect from performance measurement
Perspectives on Knowledge Converted into Action
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)