Proximity and Police Departments: Spatial Dynamics of the Misdemeanor Arrest Decline
What makes police departments change their practices? Do they transform in isolation, or do they mimic their neighbors? Combining insights from organizational theory and urban sociology, the authors argue that organizational change diffuses, in part, through physically proximate institutions. They a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Socius |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231221124579 |