Drug Testing in Law Enforcement Agencies : Social Control in the Public Sector.

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Main Author: Brunet, James R., 1966- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, Oct. 2004.
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • A Drug Testing Primer
  • The Evolution of Public Sector Drug Testing
  • Purpose of Research
  • Chapter 2: Competing Views of Workplace Drug Testing
  • The Supporters of Drug Testing
  • The Critics of Drug Testing
  • Chapter 3: A Public Sector Theory of Drug Testing
  • Core Elements of Social Control Theory
  • Employee Drug Testing as Social Control
  • Alternative Theoretical Perspectives
  • Chapter 4: Drug Use & Testing in Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Scope of the Problem ... Drug Use in the Ranks
  • The Etiology of Police Drug Use
  • The Drug Testing Solution
  • Political and Legal Contours
  • Chapter 5: Methodology
  • Data Source
  • Measurement of Variables
  • Hypotheses
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Reliability and Validity Issues
  • Delimitations
  • Chapter 6: Findings
  • Univariate Analyses
  • Bivariate Analyses
  • Multivariate Analyses
  • Chapter 7: Discussion and Conclusions
  • Theory Building
  • Theory Testing
  • Policy, Administrative, and Research Implications
  • References.