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Criminal Justice Organizations : Administration and Management

by STOJKOVIC/KALINICH/KLOFAS

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2nd

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9780534214142

ISBN10:

0534214142

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

10/15/1997

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Wadsworth Publishing

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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 ORGANIZATIONS

(76)

Chapter 1 Basic Concepts for Understanding Criminal Justice Organizations

(17)

What Is An Organization?

(1)

What Is Management?

(1)

What Is Leadership?

(1)

Open-System Theory

(2)

Complex Goals

(1)

Work Perspective: Problems of Campus Law Enforcement

(2)

Complex Environment

(1)

Complex Internal Constituencies

(1)

Summary

(1)

Case Study: Who's Running This Organization Anyway? Jail Structure, Goals, and Environment

(3)

For Discussion

(1)

For Further Reading

(1)

Chapter 2 Structure of Criminal Justice Organizations

(25)

Overview of Organizational Structure

(4)

Dimensions of Organizational Structure

(4)

Mission, Policies, and Procedures

(2)

Policies and Procedures in Organizations

(2)

Work Perspective: A Day at Work

(3)

Informal Structures in Organizations

(2)

Organizational Frames

(3)

Summary

(1)

Case Study: Decentralizing Decision Making in a Correctional System

(2)

For Discussion

(1)

For Further Reading

(1)

Chapter 3 The Criminal Justice System in Its Environment

(33)

Defining the Environment of the Criminal Justice System

(8)

The Political Environment

(3)

Task Environment Elements Specific to the Criminal Justice System

(1)

Work Perspective: The Impact of Environmental Forces on Private Security

(3)

Environmental States

(2)

Organizational Response to the Environment

(4)

Managing Environmental Forces

(5)

Implications for Administrators

(2)

Summary

(1)

Case Study: Time to Dig Out

(2)

For Discussion

(1)

For Further Reading

(1)

PART TWO INDIVIDUALS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS

(134)

Chapter 4 Problems of Communication

(28)

Basic Theory of Communication

(3)

Communication in Organizations

(5)

Work Perspective: Administrative Communication in Police Agencies

(3)

Communication Roles for Criminal Justice Practitioners

(4)

Developing Informal Communication Networks

(2)

Implications for Criminal Justice Managers

(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 ORGANIZATIONS

211

(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 ORGANIZATIONS

287

(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)

References

402

(29)

Index

431

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