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Criminal Justice Organizations : Administration and Management

ISBN: 9780534214142 | 0534214142
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 10/15/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
This text deals specifically with the administration and management techniques applied to criminal justice organizations. Providing the best in modern management theory and research, the text also emphasizes the application of management techniques appropriate to each area of the criminal justice system. By focusing on the hows as well as the whys, students will be prepared for dealing with real management issues.
PART ONE THE NATURE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS1(76)
Chapter 1 Basic Concepts for Understanding Criminal Justice Organizations
2(17)
What Is An Organization?
... MORE4(1)
What Is Management?
5(1)
What Is Leadership?
6(1)
Open-System Theory
7(2)
Complex Goals
9(1)
Work Perspective: Problems of Campus Law Enforcement
10(2)
Complex Environment
12(1)
Complex Internal Constituencies
13(1)
Summary
14(1)
Case Study: Who's Running This Organization Anyway? Jail Structure, Goals, and Environment
14(3)
For Discussion
17(1)
For Further Reading
18(1)
Chapter 2 Structure of Criminal Justice Organizations
19(25)
Overview of Organizational Structure
20(4)
Dimensions of Organizational Structure
24(4)
Mission, Policies, and Procedures
28(2)
Policies and Procedures in Organizations
30(2)
Work Perspective: A Day at Work
32(3)
Informal Structures in Organizations
35(2)
Organizational Frames
37(3)
Summary
40(1)
Case Study: Decentralizing Decision Making in a Correctional System
41(2)
For Discussion
43(1)
For Further Reading
43(1)
Chapter 3 The Criminal Justice System in Its Environment
44(33)
Defining the Environment of the Criminal Justice System
46(8)
The Political Environment
54(3)
Task Environment Elements Specific to the Criminal Justice System
57(1)
Work Perspective: The Impact of Environmental Forces on Private Security
58(3)
Environmental States
61(2)
Organizational Response to the Environment
63(4)
Managing Environmental Forces
67(5)
Implications for Administrators
72(2)
Summary
74(1)
Case Study: Time to Dig Out
74(2)
For Discussion
76(1)
For Further Reading
76(1)
PART TWO INDIVIDUALS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS77(134)
Chapter 4 Problems of Communication
78(28)
Basic Theory of Communication
80(3)
Communication in Organizations
83(5)
Work Perspective: Administrative Communication in Police Agencies
88(3)
Communication Roles for Criminal Justice Practitioners
91(4)
Developing Informal Communication Networks
95(2)
Implications for Criminal Justice Managers
97(6)
Summary
103(1)
Case Study: Reframing Noninformational Matters
103(2)
For Discussion
105(1)
For Further Reading
105(1)
Chapter 5 Motivation of Personnel
106(27)
Motivation Defined
108(1)
Theories of Motivation
109(13)
Prescriptions for Criminal Justice Management
122(2)
Work Perspective: Some Thoughts on Motivation
124(5)
Summary
129(1)
Case Study: Motivating the Police Officer
130(1)
For Discussion
131(1)
For Further Reading
132(1)
Chapter 6 Job Design
133(24)
What Is Job Design?
135(1)
Engineering and Efficiency in Job Design
136(1)
Taylorism in the Human Services
136(1)
Taylorism in Criminal Justice
137(2)
Responses to Job Characteristics
139(2)
Job Design Theory
141(3)
Job Redesign Programs
144(2)
Work Perspective: Jails of the Future and Enriched Job Design
146(2)
Job Redesign in Criminal Justice and Other Human Services
148(5)
Summary
153(1)
Case Study: A Program of Job Redesign in Corrections
153(2)
For Discussion
155(1)
For Further Reading
156(1)
Chapter 7 Leadership
157(25)
Leadership Defined
159(3)
Theories of Leadership
162(6)
Work Perspective: Police Leadership and Police Professionalism
168(5)
Leadership Research in Criminal Justice
173(3)
Leadership Education: The California Department of Corrections Experience
176(2)
Summary
178(1)
Case Study: Supervising the Police Officer: The Leadership Factor
179(1)
For Discussion
180(1)
For Further Reading
181(1)
Chapter 8 Personnel Supervision and Evaluation
182(29)
Criminal Justice Administration: The Search for Goal Consensus
184(4)
Organizational Structure and Employee Supervision
188(6)
Work Perspective: Evaluation of Probation and Parole Agents
194(2)
Models of Employee Supervision
196(7)
Is the Human Service Model Possible in Criminal Justice Organizations?
203(1)
Summary
204(1)
Case Study: Broken Windows, Damaged Gutters, and Police Supervision
205(4)
For Discussion
209(1)
For Further Reading
209(2)
PART THREE GROUP BEHAVIOR IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS211(76)
Chapter 9 Occupational Socialization
212(28)
Occupational Socialization
213(1)
Organizational Culture
214(5)
The Socialization Process
219(4)
Problems in the Socialization Process
223(1)
Work Perspective: Training in the California Department of Corrections
224(5)
Socialization and the Police
229(2)
Socialization in Corrections
231(3)
Strategies for Socialization
234(3)
Summary
237(1)
Case Study: Reflections on a Career
238(1)
For Discussion
239(1)
For Further Reading
239(1)
Chapter 10 Power and Political Behavior
240(23)
Power Defined
242(2)
Types of Power and Authority
244(3)
Consequences of Power Relations
247(1)
Work Perspective: Politics and American Corrections
248(4)
The Legitimacy of Power and Political Behavior
252(4)
Effective Types of Power
256(3)
Summary
259(1)
Case Study: The Corrections Officer's Dilemma: Who Has the Power in the Joint?
259(2)
For Discussion
261(1)
For Further Reading
262(1)
Chapter 11 Organizational Conflict
263(24)
Conflict Defined
265(1)
Types of Conflict
266(6)
Work Perspective: Say "Yes" to Conflict Within Your Organization
272(6)
Conflict Management
278(5)
The Role of Conflict in Organizations
283(1)
Summary
284(1)
Case Study: Prosecutorial Conflict: Who Decides the Charge?
284(2)
For Discussion
286(1)
For Further Reading
286(1)
PART FOUR PROCESSES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS287(115)
Chapter 12 Decision Making
288(33)
What Is a Decision?
290(4)
Decision-Making Theory: From Rationality to the Garbage Can
294(6)
Characteristics of Decision Makers
300(1)
Characteristics of Information
301(1)
Work Perspective: Bail Decision Making
302(3)
Discretion
305(4)
Prediction
309(5)
Improving Criminal Justice Decisions
314(2)
Summary
316(1)
Case Study: Rational Sentencing: Whose Rationality?
317(2)
For Discussion
319(1)
For Further Reading
320(1)
Chapter 13 Organizational Effectiveness
321(24)
What Is Organizational Effectiveness?
324(3)
Theories of Organizational Effectiveness
327(4)
Methods of Assessing Effectiveness
331(1)
Variable Analysis in Criminal Justice
332(2)
Work Perspective: Organizational Effectiveness and Jails
334(7)
Summary
341(1)
Case Study: A Probation Officer's View of Effectiveness
341(2)
For Discussion
343(1)
For Further Reading
344(1)
Chapter 14 Change and Innovation
345(34)
Why Change Occurs
348(2)
The Process of Organizational Change
350(2)
Planning in Criminal Justice
352(2)
Work Perspective: A Police Chief's Experience in Creating New Policies and Procedures
354(4)
Resistance to Change
358(6)
Overcoming Resistance to Change
364(4)
Organizational Development
368(2)
Unintended Consequences of Change
370(1)
Implications for Criminal Justice Managers
371(4)
Summary
375(1)
Case Study: A Radical Approach
376(1)
For Discussion
377(1)
For Further Reading
378(1)
Chapter 15 Research in Criminal Justice Organizations
379(23)
"Knowledge for What?"
381(1)
Criminal Justice Organizations and Knowledge Utilization
382(1)
The Researcher and Knowledge Utilization
383(1)
The Nature of Social Science Research and Knowledge Utilization
384(2)
Data and the Utilization of Knowledge
386(1)
In-House Research
387(3)
Work Perspective: Crime Analysis and Patrol Allocation
390(2)
Knowledge as Truth
392(1)
Knowledge as Power
392(1)
Knowledge as Understanding
393(3)
Summary
396(1)
Case Study: Police Technology and Research, Patrol Allocation, and Politics
397(3)
For Discussion
400(1)
For Further Reading
401(1)
References402(29)
Index431

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