The Diffusion of Accreditation Among Florida Police Agencies

William G. Doerner and William M. Doerner
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: William M. Doerner

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine how the adoption of state accreditation has diffused or spread among Florida municipal police law enforcement agencies. The study group consists of all municipal police departments operating continuously in the State of Florida from 1997 through 2006. Independent variables are taken from an annual survey, sponsored by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, to compare agencies that became accredited (n = 81) with agencies that did not gain state accreditation (n = 189). While accredited agencies differ from non-accredited agencies on a host of indicators at the zero-order, it does not appear that the state accreditation process itself is responsible for nurturing organizational change. Having received national accreditation is an important predictor of gaining state accreditation.

Keywords: Accreditation; Diffusion; Adoption of innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H40 H76 K0 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-10, Revised 2009-04
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Published in Policing: An International Journal 32.4(2009): pp. 781-798

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