Deck 1: Basic Concepts for Understanding Criminal Justice Organizations

Question 1

Due Process requirements constrain the effectiveness of police officers' goal to control crime. True or False

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What major concept(s) makeup organizational theory?

Answer 2

C
A. Leadership
B. Management
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

Question 3

Wilson (2000) states that public bureaucracies, like criminal justice agencies, must adhere to the principles of :

A) Accountability
B) Efficiency
C) Fiscal Integrity
D) Equity
E) All of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

This organization is responsible for solving crime while maintaining due process, reducing community conflicts and providing a stable working environment for officers?

A) Law Enforcement
B) Courts
C) Corrections
D) None of the above

Question 5

History shows that law enforcement has based their policies and procedures on a traditional form of policing and our now trying to implement what type of procedure?

Question 6

________________ is a process of integrating, coordinating and utilizing group members to achieve organization objectives.

Question 7

_______________ leadership is influenced by the values and culture of its organization (Stojkovic and Farkas, 2003).

Question 8

What author(s) suggests "that leaders motivate by articulation of a vision that stresses values of the audience being addressed…..involving people in deciding how to achieve that vision….enlisting the enthusiastic support of their efforts at achieving that vision… and the public recognition and rewarding of all their successes".

Question 9

Criminal justice organizations have a sole office that manages the organization. True or False.

Question 10

This organization penalizes offenders by requiring retribution and at the same time pursuing justice, deterrence and humaneness?

A) Law Enforcement
B) Courts
C) Corrections
D) None of the above

Question 11

Organizations are the same in terms of size, structure and purpose. True or False

Question 12

_________ represent police and correctional personnel have fought hard over the years to receive good pay and benefits packages.

Question 13

________________ is the process of directing and mobilizing people and their ideas to achieve an organizational goal.

Question 14

What three elements make up an organization?

A) Structure
B) Purpose
C) Activity
D) All of the above

Question 15

Managers establish a shared vision in order to motivate and inspire a group movement toward that vision. True or False

Question 16

A ______-_______ organization is self-contained and unresponsive to their environments.

Question 17

A _______-________ organization takes into account input from their environment as well as outputs services.

Question 18

Punishment, rehabilitation and maintaining order are the main of goals of what criminal justice organization?

A) Law Enforcement
B) Courts
C) Corrections
D) None of the above

Question 19

An organization is responsible for planning, budgeting, setting short-term goals and procedures. True or False

Question 20

What major threat has changed the purpose of criminal justice organizations and how they function?

A) Recession
B) Terrorism
C) Communism
D) Immigration

Question 21

Organizations are limited to performing within their boundaries (i.e. structure) that are rigidly bureaucratic. True or False

Question 22

Socialization in criminal justice organizations involves common attitudes, common values and organizational___________.

Question 23

Internal groups are a strong source of power that can constrain the purpose and effectiveness of a criminal justice organization. True or False

Question 24

Organizations are rich in politics: bargaining, negotiating, and intimidation by their members in order to attain resources, power, status and influence. True or False

Question 25

Criminal justice organizations are rather complex because various perceptions are taken into account when working towards a common goal. True or False

Question 26

The constraints on organizational goals has one benefit based on: Wright's (1981) statement that, "goal conflict is in fact desirable and that unified criminal justice system with consensus about goals would be undesirable", which is Freedom. True or False

Question 27

Public __________ has led to tougher sentences, which in turn have caused prison and jail overcrowding and increased levels of prisoner violence.

Question 28

A latent goal of an organization is _____________, which usually translates into competition for resources and constant expansion.