The Administration and Management of Criminal Justice Organizations: A Book of Readings

by Stojkovic, Stan; Klofas, John; Kalinich, David; Kalinich, David

• ISBN13: 9781577663102
• ISBN10: 1577663101
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Summary

Administrators of contemporary criminal justice organizations must balance their finite resources among an ever-changing list of infinite demands. Challenges come from a diverse range of constituent groups within an agency as well as from offenders and the community, often resulting in contradictory requests. The articles in this collection introduce the reader to the complexity of court, police, and correctional organizations, resulting in an appreciation of the role of the administrator. They question traditional methods and practices as administrators meet the organizational demands of the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

The nature of criminal justice organizations	p. 1
Two models of the criminal justice system : an organizational perspective	p. 4
The political and organizational response to gangs : an examination of a "moral panic" in Nevada	p. 21
The desirability of goal conflict within the criminal justice system	p. 44
Metropolitan development and policing : the elephant in the living room	p. 57
Drug courts : a bridge between criminal justice and health services	p. 69
Addicted to the drug war : the role of civil asset forfeiture as a budgetary necessity in contemporary law enforcement	p. 91
The individual in criminal justice organizations	p. 121
Militarizing Mayberry and beyond : making sense of American paramilitary policing	p. 124
Good policing	p. 146
"But how can you sleep nights?"	p. 167
Supervisory styles of patrol sergeants and lieutenants	p. 197
Getting rid of the prima donnas : the bureaucratization of a probation department	p. 223
Is a "correctional officer," by any other name, a "screw"?	p. 237
Citizen complaints and problem officers : examining officer behavior	p. 256
Group behavior in criminal justice organizations	p. 277
Fatal attraction : an analysis of employee boundary violations in a southern prison system, 1995-1998	p. 280
Humor in the briefing room : a study of the strategic uses of humor among police	p. 311
The rhetoric of personal loyalty to superiors in criminal justice agencies	p. 330
Contraband : the basis for legitimate power in a prison social system	p. 351
The illusion of structure : a critique of the classical model of organization and the discretionary power of correctional officers	p. 363
Processes in criminal justice organizations	p. 381
Targeted crime reduction efforts in ten communities : lessons for the project safe neighborhoods initiative	p. 384
Multijurisdictional drug task forces : an analysis of impacts	p. 399
Case routinization in investigative police work	p. 420
Negotiation and plea bargaining models : an organizational perspective	p. 439
Maintaining the myth of individualized justice : probation presentence reports	p. 453
Change in criminal justice organizations	p. 473
The dangers of criminal justice reform	p. 477
Assessing the impediments to organizational change : a view of community policing	p. 497
This jail for rent : the anatomy of a deal too good to be true	p. 508
Three strikes as a public policy : the convergence of the new penology and the McDonaldization of punishment	p. 521
Jails and judicial review : special problems for local facilities	p. 543
Putting the "what works" research into practice : an organizational perspective	p. 559
The rhetoric of community policing	p. 576
Research utilization in complex organizations : a case study in corrections	p. 596
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