Criminal Justice Organizations: Administration and Management 6th Edition

1 CHAPTER 1 Basic Concepts for Understanding Criminal Justice Organizations LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Comprehend criminal justice administration history. Understand a definition of an organization. Comprehend the concept of management. Know

156 156 156 CHAPTER 10 Power and Political Behavior LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Understand a definition of power as being both an individual construct and an organizational construct Distinguish the various

173 CHAPTER 11 Organizational Conflict LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Understand a definition of conflict Know the major types of conflict in organizations Define Intraorganizational conflict. Know the types of intraorganizational

190 190 190 CHAPTER 12 Decision Making LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the student will have achieved the following objectives: Be able to define decision making Understand the basis for decision making rules of criminal justice practitioners Understand the

209 209 209 CHAPTER 13 Organizational Effectiveness LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Define organizational effectiveness Understand the issues underpinning measuring organizational effectiveness Discuss the difficulties of the goal model Briefly

227 CHAPTER 14 Change and Innovation LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the student will have achieved the following objectives: Understand why change occurs. Be familiar with the process of organizational change Discuss four significant elements of a planned change Understand

247 CHAPTER 15 Research in Criminal Justice Organizations LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the student will have achieved the following objectives: Know the difference between basic research and applied research Understand the ways in which knowledge is utilized by criminal justice organizations

15 CHAPTER 2 Structure of Criminal Justice Organizations LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students should be able to have achieved the following objectives: Define three major differences between the open system and the closed system. Define hierarchical and organic.

32 CHAPTER 3 The Criminal Justice System in Its Environment LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the student will have achieved the following objectives: Understand the influence the environment has on criminal justice agencies Be able to discuss the following major environmental influences

49 CHAPTER 4 Problems of Communication LEARNING OBJECTIVES Upon completing this chapter, the student should be able to: Know the five steps of the communication process. Be familiar with the nine barriers to communications. Understand how communication and information flow through an

66 66 66 CHAPTER 5 Motivation of Personnel LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Understand a definition of motivation. Comprehend organizational theory and motivation from a historical perspective. Know the major theories

84 CHAPTER 6 Job Design LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Understand a definition of job design. Explain the early importance of engineering and efficiency to job design. Define and explain Taylorism. Understand

100 CHAPTER 7 Leadership LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Comprehend the complexities of leadership within criminal justice organizations Understand the many theories of leadership Know the limitations of leadership research in criminal justice

119 119 119 CHAPTER 8 Personnel Evaluation and Supervision LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Understand the difficulty in arriving at goal consensus within criminal justice organizations Comprehend the importance of organizational structure

136 136 136 CHAPTER 9 Occupational Socialization LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, the students will have achieved the following objectives: Understand occupational socialization. Understand the basic precepts of organizational culture. Understand the socialization process as it applies to criminal

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 1 1. What three elements make up an organization? (Answer: D) 1. What three elements make up an organization? (Answer: D) 1. What three elements make up an organization? (Answer: D) A. Structure B. Purpose C. Activity D. All of the above 2.

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 10 1. The types of power used depend on the tasks and functions of the particular unit. True or False ( Answer: True) False ( Answer: True) False ( Answer: True) 2. __________ is one of the most difficult concepts to define because

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 11 1. Conflict is defined as a dynamic process in which two or more individuals in an organization interact in such a way as to produce conflict episodes that may or may not lead to hostile behavior. True or False (Answer: True) lead

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 12 1. This decision began the decade of illegal manufacturing, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors. (Answer: B) intoxicating liquors. (Answer: B) intoxicating liquors. (Answer: B) A. French revolution B. Prohibition C. Civil Rights Movement D. 911 Attack 2. The federal government created

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 13 1. Organizational behavior and management has been researched for many years; ______________is the central theme in the literature related to these two topics. (Answer: Organizational Effectiveness) (Answer: Organizational Effectiveness) (Answer: Organizational Effectiveness) 2. ______________ refers to the degree of congruence between organizational

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 14 1. In the 1970s criminal defendants who suffered from mental illness were becoming a problem for law enforcement, courts, local jails, and prisons because they were released en masse from state mental institutions. True or False (Answer: True) en masse from state

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 15 1. Basic research of criminal justice organizations seeks to understand fundamental issues of process and structure in ways that may not immediately be useful to practitioners. True or False (Answer: True) or False (Answer: True) or False (Answer: True) 2. The primary

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 2 1. A structured organization attains their organizational goals by ensuring that its members follow the required guidelines in order to achieve its purpose. True or False (Answer: True) 2. What are the model(s) of an organization? (Answer: D) follow the required guidelines

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 3 1. The Department of Homeland Security was created to supervise and control a number of federal law enforcement and security agencies to coordinate their efforts. True or False (Answer: True) (Answer: True) (Answer: True) 2. The Patriot Act gave agencies leeway in

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 4 1. The process of transmitting symbols back and forth from one source to the other is also know as a dyad form of communication. True or False (Answer: True) 2. What is the first step of the communication process? (Answer: C) know

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 5 1. Motivation is a value that is rooted from ethnic culture in which is manifested in our behavior. True or False (Answer: True) behavior. True or False (Answer: True) behavior. True or False (Answer: True) 2. The _______ ________ model explains that

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 6 1. Job design in criminal justice organizations is dependent on the functionality of proper recruitment, training, and development for community needs. True or False (Answer: True) recruitment, training, and development for community needs. True or False (Answer: True) recruitment, training, and development

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 7 1. Criminal justice agencies invest an immense amount of money in leadership development programs. True or False (Answer: False) programs. True or False (Answer: False) programs. True or False (Answer: False) 2. There is little empirical evidence on what effective leadership actually

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 8 1. Which type of offender do citizens fear the most? (Answer: A) 1. Which type of offender do citizens fear the most? (Answer: A) 1. Which type of offender do citizens fear the most? (Answer: A) A. Sexual Offenders B. Murderers C.

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 9 1. Socialization is a natural process that takes place with all of us from teenage years. True or False (Answer: False) or False (Answer: False) or False (Answer: False) 2. People are more likely to choose a profession that seems to be