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Criminal Justice 240 Midterm
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Undergraduate 3
10/05/2008

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Term
Criminal Justice System vs. Non-system.
Definition
-system if often fragmented, working in harmony.
-system is neither fair nor efficient enough to deter from criminal behavior.
Term
4 Components of the Criminal Justice System.
Definition
-Police: social order, arrest.
-Courts: administration of justice, prosecute.
-Corrections: punishment.
-Juvenile Justice: underage youth, rehabilitate.
Term
Crime Control Model.
Definition
crime is a breakdown of individual responsibility and places the highest importance on repressing criminal conduct.
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Due Process Model.
Definition
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.
Term
Public Sector vs. Private Sector Administration.
Definition
Public uses internal rewards to motivate workers while private uses external rewards to motivate individuals.
Term
Elements of an Organization.
Definition
1. Rulification and Routinization: rules and routines
2. Division of Labor
3. Hierarchy of Authority
4. Expertise
5. Written Rules
Term
Define: Organization:
Definition
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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Communication Process:
Definition
Encoding: symbols

Translate: transmission of symbol

Medium: communication

Reception: receiver gets message

Decode: understand symbol

Feedback: response
Term
Scientific Management.
Definition
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.
Definition
Worker productivity is more closely related to social capacity than to physical capacity.
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Systems Management.
Definition
Designed to bring individual and organization together. Employs different parts of different theories.
Term
Trait Theory.
Definition
Good leaders possess certain character traits that poor leaders did not. Not highly respected because leadership can be taught to some extent.
Term
Style Theory.
Definition
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.
Term
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Definition
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.
Term
Motivation-Hygiene Theory.
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.
Term
Specialization or Division of Labor.
Definition
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.
Term
The Basic Organizational Structure.
Definition
Chief of Police
Operations Services
-Patrol -Staff Services
-Investigation -Auxiliary Services
-Youth
Term
Community-oriented policing and problem solving.
Definition
S.A.R.A.: Scanning (problem identification), Analysis (determining the extent of the problem), Response (formulating tailor-made strategies), Assessment (evaluating overall effectiveness).
Term
Police executive.
Definition
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.
Term
The Assessment Center.
Definition
Identify behavior important for success -->used to select qualified candidates for CEO.
Term
Sheriff.
Definition
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
Term
Problem-Solving Courts.
Definition
Attempt to find the cause to civil disturbances.
Term
Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Definition
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.
Term
Tennessee v. Garner
Definition
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.
Term
County of Sacramento v. Lewis
Definition
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.
Term
Tehan v. United States ex rel. Shott
Definition
the basic purpose of a trial is the determination of truth.
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