NCJ Number
71082
Date Published
1980
Length
468 pages
Annotation
Using information from business, social and behavioral sciences, and from public administration, this comprehensive text provides techniques for designing and implementing effective criminal justice plans.
Abstract
Rising crime rates in the 1960's have focused increasing attention on planning, not only for police, courts, and corrections, but for community agencies and citizen action as well. This volume reflects this acknowledgement of the benefits of planning. Four chapters discuss the development of criminal justice and its integral relation to planning and goalsetting. The major portion of the book details the activities of the planner and the planner's relationship to management. Topics covered are the integration of planning, management, and goals; implementation requiring management skills; effective planning; the human side of planning; the relationship between planning and budgeting; and the relationship of planning to prevention. Final chapters discuss the position of planning in the administration of criminal justice, the criteria and evaluation of criminal justice production, and program evaluation. The dynamics of change, especially the seriousness of resistance to effective programs and the future of planning, are dealt with. Each chapter contains a preview, an outline, and footnotes. Tables,charts, and a subject index are provided. (Author abstract modified)