Matthew J Giblin

Organization and Management in the Criminal Justice System

A Text/Reader

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book covers the field's core foundational theories and works, as well as contemporary theories and cutting-edge research. Demonstrating that organizations matter and that the study of organizations has far-reaching utility, the book applies broader organization and management principles to a wide range of key entities including police, courts, and corrections, as well as drug traffickers, sex offender treatment providers, and homeland security agencies. Each of these organizations has a criminal justice nexus and is discussed alongside the major components of the criminal justice system. From organizational theory to managing a criminal justice organization, this book is a must-read for anyone pursuing a career in criminal justice administration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 189mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 966g
• ISBN-13: 9781452219929
• ISBN-10: 1452219923
• Artikelnr.: 38028908

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. Giblin is an associate professor and undergraduate program director in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He earned his doctorate in Criminal Justice from Indiana University in 2004. His primary research interest involves applying organizational theories to the study of criminal justice agencies. Specifically, he and his colleagues have tested contingency, resource dependence, and institutional theory explanations of police homeland security preparedness, community policing implementation, and crime analysis unit adoption.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I. Introduction: Why Should We Study Criminal Justice
Organizations?
Section II. Organizational Structure: How Do We Build Organizations?
Reading 1. The Impact of Centralization and Formalization on Correctional
Staff Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment by Eric G. Lambert,
Eugene A. Paoline, and Nancy Lynne Hogan
Reading 2. Factors to Consider for Optimal Span of Control in Community
Supervision Evidence-Based Practice Environments by Gaylene S. Armstrong
Reading 3. The Organizational Structure of International Drug Smuggling by
Jana S. Benson and Scott H. Decker
Section III. Organizational Theory: How Do We Explain What Organizations
Look Like?
Reading 4. "McJustice": On the McDonaldization of Criminal Justice by
Robert Bohm
Reading 5. Maintaining the Myth of Individualized Justice: Probation
Presentence Reports by John Rosecrance
Section IV. Organizational Deviance and Termination: What Explains Failure
in Criminal Justice Agencies?
Reading 6. Bureaucracy, Managerial Disorganization, and Administrative
Breakdown in Criminal Justice Agencies byClarissa Freitas Dias and Michael
S. Vaughn
Reading 7. Social Theory and the Street Cop: The Case of Deadly Force by
Klinger, David
Section V. Interagency Collaboration: Are Two or More Organizations
[Combined] Better Than One?
Reading 8. The Intelligence Fusion Process for State, Local, and Tribal Law
Enforcement by David L. Carter and Jeremy G. Carter
Reading 9. A Specialized Domestic Violence Court in South Carolina: An
Example of Procedural Justice for Victims and Defendants by Angela R.
Gover, Eve M. Brank, and John M. MacDonald
Section VI. Unions and Collective Bargaining: United We Stand?
Reading 10. Police Employee Organizations by Colleen Kadleck
Reading 11. Prison Officer Unions and the Perpetuation of the Penal Status
Quo by Joshua Page
Section VII. Organizational Socialization: How Does a Person Learn to
"Behave" in an Organization?
Reading 12. Saying One Thing, Meaning Another: The Role of Parables in
Police Training by Robert E. Ford
Reading 13. An Officer and a Lady: Organizational Barriers to Women Working
as Correctional Officers in Men's Prisons by Nancy C. Jurik
Section VIII. Motivation and Job Design: How Do We Light a Fire Under
Employees?
Reading 14. Motivation as a Predictor of Therapeutic Engagement in Mandated
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment by Matthew L. Hiller, Kevin Knight,
Carl Leukefeld, and D. Dwayne Simpson
Reading 15. Organizational Justice and Police Misconduct by Scott E. Wolfe
and Alex R. Piquero
Reading 16. Job Design, Community Policing, and Higher Education: A Tale of
Two Cities by Charles W. Sherwood
Section IX. Occupational Stress and Burnout: Is This Job Killing Me?
Reading 17. A Qualitative Assessment of Stress Perceptions Among Members of
a Homicide Unit by Dean A. Dabney, Heith Copes, Richard Tewksbury, and
Shila R. Hawk-Tourtelot
Reading 18. The Nature of Occupational Stress Among Public Defenders by
David R. Lynch
Reading 19. Factors Contributing to Levels of Burnout Among Sex Offender
Treatment Providers by Rebecca A. Shelby, Rebecca M. Stoddart, and Kathryn
L. Taylor
Section X. Leadership: Are You a Leader or a Follower?
Reading 20. The Ineffective Police Leader: Acts of Commission and Omission
by Joseph A. Schafer
Reading 21. Leadership and Correctional Reform by James B. Jacobs and Elana
Olitsky
Section XI. Power in Organizations: How are Subordinates, Suspects,
Inmates, and Clients Controlled?
Reading 22. The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison
by Gresham M. Sykes
Reading 23. The Limits of Individual Control? Perceived Officer Power and
Probationer Compliance by Hayden P. Smith, Brandon K. Applegate, Alicia H.
Sitren, and Nicollette Fariello Springer.
Reading 24. Gender, Power, and Reciprocity in the Correctional Setting by
Denise L. Jenne and Robert C. Kersting
Section XII. Organizational Change: What Causes Organizations to Transform?
Reading 25. Lessons from the Battle over D.A.R.E.: The Complicated
Relationship Between Research and Practice byGreg Berman and Aubrey Fox
Reading 26. Improving Criminal Justice Through Better Decision Making:
Lessons From the Medical System by Daniel P. Mears and Sarah Bacon
Glossary
References
Credits and Sources
Index
About the Author