RT Article
T1 New public management and the ‘business’ of policing organised crime in Australia
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 17
IS 4
SP 382
OP 400
A1 Mann, Monique
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174102174X
AB The globalisation of new public management (NPM) across OECD countries had a profound impact on the administration and management of policing policy and practice. The ideologies of NPM were enthusiastically embraced in Australia in response to high-level corruption with mixed results. This article draws on interviews with senior Australian federal police to explore the policing of organised crime in the context of NPM. Emerging themes concerned the requirement to make the ‘business case’ for resources on the basis of strategic intelligence, recognition of the complexities associated with performance measurement and institutional competition as agencies vie for limited public resources. This article questions the discursive practices of NPM policing and raises questions about notions of ‘accountability’ and ‘transparency’ for effective police approaches to organised crime.
K1 Intelligence-led policing
K1 New public management
K1 Organised crime
K1 Police leaders
K1 Police managerial practices
K1 Police performance measurement
K1 Surveillance
DO 10.1177/1748895816671384