Governmental rationalities in police leadership: An essay exploring some of the 'deep structure' in police leadership praxis

Policing and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-36

  Adlam, Robert ^a  

^a National Police Leadership Faculty   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Governmental rationalities; Police culture; Police leadership and management; The police and the state

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549094693     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439460290006655     Document Type: Article

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