Administration of Criminal Justice: Structure, Function, and Process

• Utilizing the case method of learning, two cases are presented at the conclusion of each chapter for class discussion and paper assignments
• Thorough review of key organizational, interpersonal, and individual variables used in the analysis of persons, groups, and institutions throughout the criminal justice system
• Comprehensive review of theories of motivation in criminal justice organizations
• Up-to-date and interesting box materials supplementing text, featuring key topics and contemporary themes of different dimensions of criminal justice organizations
• Personality highlights and commentaries by professionals who work in criminal justice agencies and organizations
• Comprehensive overview of theories, models, and typologies used for analyzing organizational structure and change
• Extended discussion of both formal and informal communication networks in organizations, including a description of their functions and dysfunctions
• Presentation of key leadership theories in organizational analysis, including a balanced discussion of power and authority
• Discussion of critical issues in the administration of juvenile justice systems
• Extensive discussion of organizational effectiveness and how organizations are assessed and evaluated

This comprehensive and up-to-date book examines all aspects of the criminal justice system from an organizational perspective. Key theoretical approaches and concepts are explained together with key terms and organizational principle models and typologies. The book also explains organizational effectiveness and covers police, court, and corrections organizations in depth to fully illustrate the operations of these justice systems.

This volume explains all aspects of organizational theories, models and typologies, organizational variables and measuring effectiveness, supervision and communication systems, motivation, satisfaction, and morale of employees, organization of criminal justice systems, law enforcement, police and sheriff's departments, court organization and administration, jail and prison organizations, community corrections organizations, and juvenile justice organizations and their administration.

For criminal justice, sociology and public administration professionals interested in criminal justice systems.

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All aspects of the criminal justice system are examined from an organizational perspective in this text stressing cases based on real events and adaptations of news stories. Themes include criminal justice organizations and the administration of justice, organizational variables, interpersonal and individual variables, leadership in organizations, communication networks in organizations, employee motivation, court organization and administration, juvenile justice organizations, and evaluating organizational effectiveness. Learning features include boxes on real professionals, plus chapter summaries, review questions, and a glossary. Champion is professor of criminal justice at Texas A&M International University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dean John Champion is Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A & M International University, Laredo, Texas. Dr. Champion has taught at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, California State University-Long Beach, and Minot State University in North Dakota. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University and B.S. and M.A. degrees from Brigham Young University. He also completed several years of law school at the Nashville School of Law.

Dr. Champion has written and/or edited 30 texts and maintains memberships in 11 professional organizations. He is a lifetime member of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the American Sociological Association. He is former editor of the ACJS/Anderson series on Issues in Crime and Justice (1993-1996) and the Journal of Crime and Justice (1995-1998). He is a contributing author for the Encarta Encyclopedia 2000 for Microsoft. He was the Visiting Scholar for the National Center for juvenile justice in 1992 and is president of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.

Among his published books for Prentice Hall are Basic Statistics for Social Research (1970,1981); Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology (1993, 2000); The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law (1992, 1998, 2001); Corrections in the United States: A Contemporary Perspective (1990, 1998, 2001); Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections (1990, 1996, 1999, 2002); and Policing in the Community (with George Rush) (1996).

Dr. Champions's primary research interests relate to attorney use in juvenile justice proceedings and plea bargaining.