scholarly journals Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, 1987

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Langworthy

The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey is a comparative organizational research platform from which studies of police organizational structures can be launched. This article briefly describes the survey and its origin, discusses its capacity to provide measures of organizational dimensions, and considers how the survey results can best be used to increase our understanding of police organizations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Aiello

This article tests the temporal relationship between the representation of females in policing and organizational change toward community-oriented policing. This mixed methods study involves secondary data analysis of the 2013 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics survey, open-source data collection of online recruitment materials for 493 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics agencies, quantitative content analysis of a random sample of 131 departments, and Leximancer semantic mapping of the 493 departments’ materials. The two forms of content analysis focus on the particular emphases of “legalistic,” “watchman,” and “service” styles. The quantitative content analysis results largely support the temporal model, with the percent female sworn in a given department in 2013 significantly predicting whether that department’s 2018 recruitment materials focus on service or community-oriented policing content. The Leximancer semantic mapping results provide a more ambiguous picture, including legalistic through-line language around police work.


Author(s):  
Oleg Morozov ◽  
Oleg Korelov

On the basis of a systematic approach, the general problems of using the law enforcement management of the bodies of internal Affairs software method are addressed. The current state of programming is considered; in the network of general patterns of social management the main areas of improvement of this work are proposed.


Author(s):  
Matthew C. Matusiak ◽  
Bradley A. Campbell ◽  
William R. King

Purpose – Since 1987, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has periodically collected data from police agencies in the USA and disseminated these data as the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) series. The purpose of this paper is to outline LEMAS's impact on criminal justice scholarship by describing the nexus between policing scholarship and LEMAS, and by analyzing the LEMAS constructs and variables used by researchers in refereed journal articles. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic review of the literature is undertaken to better comprehend how scholars use LEMAS variables and constructs. In total, 114 peer-reviewed journal articles were analyzed to parcel out variables and constructs derived from LEMAS data. Findings – The paper's analysis reveals that LEMAS is the second-most used BJS data series and the majority of authors use LEMAS to measure elements of organizational structure but not organizational behaviors, outcomes, or outputs. Originality/value – The study is the first to systematically identify all peer-reviewed journal articles that utilize LEMAS data. Police organizational research is unique in the fact that most authors agree on the operationalization of variables and constructs.


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