NCJ Number
188098
Date Published
1998
Length
464 pages
Annotation
By combining the best in modern management theory, research, and practice, this book offers future and practicing administrators a realistic and comprehensive look at criminal justice administration.
Abstract
The book's intent is to provide students with a conceptual and theoretical basis upon which to consider criminal justice administration and management. This second edition's organization follows the same format as the first edition, but with three new chapters on structure and criminal justice organization, employee supervision and evaluation, and research and criminal justice organizations. Part One examines the nature of criminal justice organizations. Chapter 1 explores basic concepts associated with criminal justice administration and management. Chapter 2, which presents a description of the structure of criminal justice organization, is one of the new chapters in this second edition. Chapter 3 examines the role of environment in criminal justice organizations. Part Two focuses on the individual in criminal justice organizations and includes chapters on communication, motivation, job design, personnel supervision and evaluation (a new chapter), and leadership. Part Three addresses group processes in criminal justice, including occupational socialization, power, and organization conflict. Part Four, which examines processes in criminal justice organizations, includes four chapters on decision making, organization effectiveness, change and innovation, and research in criminal justice organizations (a new chapter). Each chapter includes case studies written from the perspective of either a real or imagined criminal justice practitioner. Suggestions for further reading accompany each chapter. 700 references and a subject index