Steve Kelman & Irwin Turbitt
This research focuses on multi-organizational collaborations called “Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships” (CDRP’s) in the United Kingdom. CDRP’s are local level organizations which include the local authority, the police, the fire service, and the local branch of the National Health Service. The topics of organizing collaboration across government organizations and between government organizations and private ones are now among the most-discussed questions in the U.S. as well as elsewhere, involving the performance of public institutions and the achievement of public purposes.
This research will study systematically the impact of various management/leadership/organizational design practices of CDRP’s – i.e. how the CDRP is led and managed as a multi-organizational collaboration – on the policy outcome it is designed to address: crime reduction.