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Maguire, Edward Ross was born on November 6, 1967 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Neal and Patricia Jean Maguire.
(A new theory accounts for the characteristics of individu...)
A new theory accounts for the characteristics of individual police departments. Although most large police organizations perform the same tasks, there is tremendous variation in how individual organizations are structured. To account for this variation, author Edward R. Maguire develops a new theory that attributes the formal structures of large municipal police agencies to the contexts in which they are embedded. This theory finds that the relevant features of an organization's context are its size, age, technology, and environment. Using a database representing nearly four hundred of the nation's largest municipal police agencies, Maguire develops empirical measures of police organizations and their contexts and then uses these measures in a series of structural equation models designed to test the theory. Ultimately, police organizations are shown to be like other types of organizations in many ways but are also shown to be unique in a number of respects.
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consultant social sciences educator
Maguire, Edward Ross was born on November 6, 1967 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Neal and Patricia Jean Maguire.
Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Albany, 1997.
Associate social affairs officer United Nations, Vienna, 1994. Social science analyst United States Department Justice, Washington, 1994—1996. Assistant professor social science University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1996—2000.
Associate professor social science George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, since 2000.
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Member of American Society Criminology.
1 child Alexander Addante.