Making Sense of COMPSTAT: A Theory-Based Analysis of Organizational Change in Three Police Departments

COMPSTAT, the latest innovation in American policing, has been widely heralded as a management and technological system whose elements work together to transform police organizations radically. Skeptical observers suggest that COMPSTAT merely reinforces existing structures and practices. However, in trying to assess how much COMPSTAT has altered police organizations, research has failed to provide a broader theoretical basis for explaining how COMPSTAT operates and for understanding the implications of this reform. This article compares two different perspectives on organizations—technical/rational and institutional—to COMPSTAT's adoption and operation in three municipal police departments. Based on fieldwork, our analysis suggests that relative to technical considerations for changing each organization to improve its effectiveness, all three sites adopted COMPSTAT in response to strong institutional pressures to appear progressive and successful. Furthermore, institutional theory better explained the nature of the changes we observed under COMPSTAT than the technical/rational model. The greatest collective emphasis was on those COMPSTAT elements that were most likely to confer legitimacy, and on implementing them in ways that would minimize disruption to existing organizational routines. COMPSTAT was less successful when trying to provide a basis for rigorously assessing organizational performance, and when trying to change those structures and routines widely accepted as being "appropriate." We posit that it will take profound changes in the technical and institutional environments of American police agencies for police departments to restructure in the ways anticipated by a technically efficient COMPSTAT.     

公安院校授课影视案例库的建设与应用

根据公安院校一些课程的学科特点,将一个个具有典型性或普遍性的影视案例精心剪辑成短小精悍的片断,并一一附上与学科知识相关的简洁文字介绍和阐释,汇集成该课程的授课影视案例素材库。授课影视案例应用于课堂的最佳环节有新课导入环节、理论阐释环节、应用分析环节、模拟应用环节等,其运用需遵循必要性原则、适量性原则、典型性原则、简捷性原则和时效性原则。     

充足理由律在侦查工作中的运用

侦查工作中,正确运用充足理由律,有助于对言词证据的可靠性进行判定,有效说服教育犯罪嫌疑人,及时识别、驳斥犯罪嫌疑人的诡辩。运用时应当注意：把握好适用的范围、条件;理由必须真实;理由与论断之间要有必然的逻辑联系;不能违反法律规定。     

Sustaining Labor‐Environmental Coalitions: Banana Allies in Costa Rica

What is required for sustaining an alliance between union and environmental activists? Applying grounded theory to a case study in the Costa Rican banana sector, this article reveals five historical phases. First, unions and environmentalists identify common opportunity structures for joint action. Second, a preexisting network becomes a resource for mobilization. Third, the new coalition engages in communicative action that leads to shared identity and cultural framing and a foundation for handling exogenous global forces. Market policy changes in the fourth phase stimulate a transnational activist network and framing linkages. Dramatic supply disruptions in the fifth precipitate autonomous organizational approaches that require reframing, identity extension, and flexibility. This study argues that the Costa Rican case can be generalized to other labor‐environmental coalitions if such alliances create simple, open structures that agilely adapt to external opportunity structures and expand frames that encourage collaborative autonomy and dualistic collective definitions.     

民国山西警政建设研究

民国山西警政建设经历了四个发展阶段,每一阶段都有其发展特点和重点,并在管理体制、警察教育、乡村警政建设、警察的职能等方面有一定特色,这些都对现代警政建设有重要的借鉴价值。     

诉讼欺诈行为研究——以刑法为视角的分析

诉讼欺诈是一种独特的危害社会的行为。我国刑法理论和司法实践对诉讼欺诈行为的定性分歧较大。事实上,诉讼欺诈完全符合诈骗罪的本质特征,因而应按诈骗罪定罪量刑。诉讼欺诈行为侵犯双重具体的社会关系,但其直接客体是单一客体。诈骗罪中的被骗人与被害人不必是同一人,但被骗人与财产处分者必须是同一人;在被骗人与被害人不一致的情况下,应当以被骗人为基准来判断处分意思和处分行为。     

俄罗斯与伊朗关系中的美国因素——剖析俄罗斯在近期伊朗核危机中的表现

俄罗斯在近期伊朗核危机中积极介入并提出妥协方案的原因在于:一方面俄罗斯与美国的地缘政治冲突和分歧,使得俄罗斯与伊朗保持着紧密的联盟关系;另一方面俄罗斯与美国是战略伙伴关系,俄罗斯无力反制美国,俄罗斯外交中存在美国“软肋”。