Learning from Error in Policing A Case Study in Organizational Accident Theory /

• Main Author: Shane, Jon. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Criminology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00041-1

 While the proximate cause of any accident is usually someone s immediate action or omission (failure to act) there is often a trail of underlying latent conditions that facilitated their error: the person has, in effect, been unwittingly set up for failure by the organization.� This Brief explores an accident in policing, as a framework for examining existing police practices.�� Learning from Error in Policing describes a case of wrongful arrest from the perspective of organizational accident theory, which suggests a single unsafe act in this case a wrongful arrest is facilitated by several underlying latent conditions that triggered the event and failed to stop the harm once in motion. ��The analysis demonstrates that the risk of errors committed by omission (failing to act) were significantly more likely to occur than errors committed by acts of commission.� By examining this case, policy implications and directions for future research are discussed. � The analysis of this case, and the underlying lessons learned from it will have important implications for researchers and practitioners in the policing field.