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| Criminal Justice System vs. Non-system. |
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-system if often fragmented, working in harmony.
-system is neither fair nor efficient enough to deter from criminal behavior. |
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| 4 Components of the Criminal Justice System. |
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-Police: social order, arrest.
-Courts: administration of justice, prosecute.
-Corrections: punishment.
-Juvenile Justice: underage youth, rehabilitate. |
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| crime is a breakdown of individual responsibility and places the highest importance on repressing criminal conduct. |
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| holds that the defendants should be presumed innocent, that the courts' first priority is protecting suspects' rights, and that granting too much freedom to law enforcement officials will result in the loss of freedom and civil liberties for all Americans. |
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| Public Sector vs. Private Sector Administration. |
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| Public uses internal rewards to motivate workers while private uses external rewards to motivate individuals. |
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| Elements of an Organization. |
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1. Rulification and Routinization: rules and routines
2. Division of Labor
3. Hierarchy of Authority
4. Expertise
5. Written Rules |
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a consciously coordinated social entity, with a relative identifiable boundary, that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals.
Consciously Coordinated: management.
Social Entity: organizations are composed of people who interact with one another and with other people in other organizations.
Relatively Identifiable Boundary: organization's goals and the public served. |
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Encoding: symbols
Translate: transmission of symbol
Medium: communication
Reception: receiver gets message
Decode: understand symbol
Feedback: response |
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Planning: outline what needs to be done and how.
Organizing: formal structure of authority.
Staffing: whole personnel function of bringing in and training staff.
Directing: continuous task of making decisions.
Coordinating: interrelating various parts of the organization.
Reporting: informing the executive.
Budgeting: fiscal planning, accounting, and control. |
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| Human Relations Management. |
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| Worker productivity is more closely related to social capacity than to physical capacity. |
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| Designed to bring individual and organization together. Employs different parts of different theories. |
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| Good leaders possess certain character traits that poor leaders did not. Not highly respected because leadership can be taught to some extent. |
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1. leaders must give task direction to the followers.
2. closeness of supervision directly affects employee production.
3.leaders must be employee oriented.
Autocratic Leader: leader centered and have a high initiating structure, give orders and no group participation.
Democratic Leaders: focus on working within the group and strives to attain cooperationg from group members by eliciting their ideas and support.
Laissez-faire Leaders: hands-off approach in which the leader is actually a nonleader. |
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. |
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| Hypothesized that if he could understand what made people function, it would be possibly to apply the same techniques to other, thus achieving a high state of motivation. |
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| Motivation-Hygiene Theory. |
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Definition
Maintenance or hygiene factors: elements in work environment that meet an employee's hedonistic need to avoid pain.
Motivational factors: psychosocial factors that provide intrinsic satisfaction and serve as an incentive for people to invest more of their time, talent, energy, and expertise in productive behavior. |
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| Specialization or Division of Labor. |
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| One of the basic features of traditional organizational theory. Produces groups with functional responsibilities and the jobs allocated to meet these different responsibilities are held by people who are considered to be especially wll qualified to perform those jobs. |
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| The Basic Organizational Structure. |
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Chief of Police
Operations Services
-Patrol -Staff Services
-Investigation -Auxiliary Services
-Youth |
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| Community-oriented policing and problem solving. |
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| S.A.R.A.: Scanning (problem identification), Analysis (determining the extent of the problem), Response (formulating tailor-made strategies), Assessment (evaluating overall effectiveness). |
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Interpersonal Role: figurehead (ceremonies, etc.), leadership, and liaison duties(coordination with other organizations).
Informational Role: monitoring/inspecting (review department operations), dissemination (distributing information), spokesperson.
Decision-Maker Role: entrepreneur (sell ideas), disturbance handler (minor disputes between staff), resource allocator (agency's budget), negotiator. |
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| Identify behavior important for success -->used to select qualified candidates for CEO. |
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1. serving and/or implementing civil processes
2.collecting certain taxes and conducting real estate sales for the county
3.performing routine order-maintenance duties by enforcing state statutes and count ordinances, arresting offenders, and performing traffic and criminal investigations
4.serving as bailiff of the courts
5.maintaining and operating the county correctional institutions |
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| Attempt to find the cause to civil disturbances. |
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| Alternative Dispute Resolution. |
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Two most common forms:
arbitration: similar to trial but less formal. arbitrator is appointed to a case.
mediation: less formal and more "friendly". parties negotiate with the aid of an impartial person who facilitates the settlement negotiations. |
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| new policy concerning the use of deadly force. only allowed when a suspect threatens the officer with a weapon or there is probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm. |
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| County of Sacramento v. Lewis |
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| ruled that the proper standard to be employed in these cases is whether the officer's conduct during the pursuit was conscience shocking; it further determined that high-speed chases with no intent to harm suspects do not give rise to liability under the Fourteenth Amendment. |
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| Tehan v. United States ex rel. Shott |
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| the basic purpose of a trial is the determination of truth. |
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