Criminal Justice Organizations: Leading Group Challenges
Leading Group Challenges
AJS/512
June 4, 2012
Leading Group Challenges
Criminal justice organizations include the court system, corrections, and the police departments. Each of these organizations and agencies deal with many challenges daily and the leaders of the agencies must have the knowledge to handle the challenges. Each organization and agency in the criminal justice system plays a role, and leadership is the basis of the role in each agency.
Conflict and Control Challenges
Criminal justice agencies deal with conflict between the many agencies. The police officers arrest the offenders and charge the offender with the crime, and the court system determines what sentence the offender should face, if the charges warrant a sentence. If the offender receives a sentence of jail or prison, the correctional facilities must guarantee the sentence occurs in a secure manner. Unfortunately, these criminal justice agencies are not always working toward the same goals, which …show more content…
Most criminal justice agencies rely on local and state funding to operate and sometimes the state or local officials have to make drastic cuts to the budget because of the economy. Unfortunately, this causes a reduction in staff because the money just is not there to pay the salaries. Budget cuts are probably the biggest challenges that criminal justice leaders face because no one wants a reduction in police officers or correctional officers. The United States needs every man power it can get to combat the war on crime. The crime rate rises when departments are forced to scale back because of the budget. Offenders on parole or probation receive less supervision because the money is not there to supervise adequately each offender. Budget cuts affect each agency differently, but no agency wants the budget to be cut because managers believe the public cannot be adequately protected (Bryant,
AJS/512
June 4, 2012
Leading Group Challenges
Criminal justice organizations include the court system, corrections, and the police departments. Each of these organizations and agencies deal with many challenges daily and the leaders of the agencies must have the knowledge to handle the challenges. Each organization and agency in the criminal justice system plays a role, and leadership is the basis of the role in each agency.
Conflict and Control Challenges
Criminal justice agencies deal with conflict between the many agencies. The police officers arrest the offenders and charge the offender with the crime, and the court system determines what sentence the offender should face, if the charges warrant a sentence. If the offender receives a sentence of jail or prison, the correctional facilities must guarantee the sentence occurs in a secure manner. Unfortunately, these criminal justice agencies are not always working toward the same goals, which …show more content…
Most criminal justice agencies rely on local and state funding to operate and sometimes the state or local officials have to make drastic cuts to the budget because of the economy. Unfortunately, this causes a reduction in staff because the money just is not there to pay the salaries. Budget cuts are probably the biggest challenges that criminal justice leaders face because no one wants a reduction in police officers or correctional officers. The United States needs every man power it can get to combat the war on crime. The crime rate rises when departments are forced to scale back because of the budget. Offenders on parole or probation receive less supervision because the money is not there to supervise adequately each offender. Budget cuts affect each agency differently, but no agency wants the budget to be cut because managers believe the public cannot be adequately protected (Bryant,