Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management

• NCJ Number: 225034
• Author(s): Kenneth J. Peak
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 494 pages
• Sale Source: Prentice-Hall, Inc
• Publication Format: Book (Hardbound)
• Publication Type: Overview Text
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This book considers some of the major theories, aspects, and issues of justice administration in the areas of police, courts, and corrections, laying the foundation for the reader’s future study and experience, and focusing on the practical aspects of justice administration.

Abstract

To understand the challenges of the administrators of justice organizations there is first, the need to place justice administration within the larger picture. In part 1, the organization and administration and the nature of the United States justice system; the state of the country with respect to crime and government control; and the evolution of justice administration in all three components: police, courts, and corrections are discussed. Parts 2, 3 and 4 covering contemporary police, courts, and corrections administration, respectively, all follow the same organization: (1) the first chapter of each part deals with the organization and operation of the component; (2) the second chapter offers an examination of the component’s personnel roles and functions; (3) the third chapter provides a discussion of issues and practices; and (4) within each of the latter chapters is a section on “what works” within each component, programs and practices that have been attempted and appear to have been successful. These three parts also conclude with several case studies which are intended to allow the reader to encounter a few of the kinds of problems confronted daily by justice administrators. Part 5 looks at administrative problems and factors that span and influence the entire system, including the rights of criminal justice employees, labor relations, civil liability, AIDS, accountability, the future, and financial administration. The book concludes with part 6, a view of how administrators can predict the future and some of the changes and challenges that await them. The book contributes to the demand of a textbook analyzing justice administration from a systems perspective, considering all of the components of the justice system: police, courts, and corrections, their administration, issues, and practices. Figures, references and index