Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces

Author : Paula Brough,Jennifer M. Brown,Amanda Biggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317698074

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All organisations, whether private or public sector, seek to improve criminal justice workplace practice from an evidence base, but often find it difficult to effectively translate research findings into policy or design best-practice interventions. This book provides a direct bridge between academic research in organisational behaviour and the management of workers within criminal justice agencies. The public sector in particular is currently experiencing significant funding cuts and increasingly needs to create optimal workplace strategies to maintain frontline services and preserve the well-being of the work force. The aim of this book is to equip managers with knowledge about key processes and appropriate research methods, thereby enabling them to more readily understand and apply academic research to their workplaces. The means to translate research findings into implementation strategies are also clearly explained. Furthermore, essential organisational issues that either impede or enhance productivity, employee effectiveness, and management responsiveness to change are discussed, following a common chapter template of problem definition, research and analysis, evidence translation, implementation, and evaluation. Written by experts in the field, this book applies cutting-edge theoretical discussions and research findings to evidence-based policy. It examines new strategies and best practice in the context of widespread demoralization of staff in the criminal justice sector due to the impact of increased austerity. Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces is essential reading for leadership teams, managers and supervisors in the court, police, probation, and prison services, as well as allied professionals such as forensic psychologists and HR professionals.

Author : Paula Brough,Jennifer M. Brown,Amanda Biggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317698081

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Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces by Paula Brough,Jennifer M. Brown,Amanda Biggs Pdf

All organisations, whether private or public sector, seek to improve criminal justice workplace practice from an evidence base, but often find it difficult to effectively translate research findings into policy or design best-practice interventions. This book provides a direct bridge between academic research in organisational behaviour and the management of workers within criminal justice agencies. The public sector in particular is currently experiencing significant funding cuts and increasingly needs to create optimal workplace strategies to maintain frontline services and preserve the well-being of the work force. The aim of this book is to equip managers with knowledge about key processes and appropriate research methods, thereby enabling them to more readily understand and apply academic research to their workplaces. The means to translate research findings into implementation strategies are also clearly explained. Furthermore, essential organisational issues that either impede or enhance productivity, employee effectiveness, and management responsiveness to change are discussed, following a common chapter template of problem definition, research and analysis, evidence translation, implementation, and evaluation. Written by experts in the field, this book applies cutting-edge theoretical discussions and research findings to evidence-based policy. It examines new strategies and best practice in the context of widespread demoralization of staff in the criminal justice sector due to the impact of increased austerity. Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces is essential reading for leadership teams, managers and supervisors in the court, police, probation, and prison services, as well as allied professionals such as forensic psychologists and HR professionals.

Author : Sarah Hean,Berit Johnsen,Anu Kajamaa,Laure Kloetzer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030706616

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Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems by Sarah Hean,Berit Johnsen,Anu Kajamaa,Laure Kloetzer Pdf

This Open Access edited collection seeks to improve collaboration between criminal justice and welfare services in order to help prepare offenders for life after serving a prison sentence. It examines the potential tensions between criminal justice agencies and other organisations which are involved in the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders, most notably those engaged in mental health care or third sector organisations. It then suggests a variety of different methods and approaches to help to overcome such tensions and promote inter-agency collaboration and co-working, drawing on emerging research and models, with a focus on the practice in European and Scandinavian countries. For academics and practitioners working in prisons and the penal system, this collection will be invaluable.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Correctional personnel
ISBN : UCAL:C3614628

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Problems in Administering Programs to Improve Law Enforcement Education, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Department of Justice by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Leslie J. Smith
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781461679394

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Coordinating the Criminal Justice System by Leslie J. Smith Pdf

This guide was developed to assist students, professors, executives of local criminal justice systems, and appointed and elected officials of general government to have a better understanding on how the criminal justice system should function. It may also be of special interest to citizens and public officials who sense that more collaboration and coordination is needed to enhance criminal justice decision making which, in turn, will have a positive impact on local criminal justice systems. Leslie J. Smith advocates that the performance of the criminal justice system should be measured in terms of achieving the goals and objectives of each component collectively. Although the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the U.S. government are constitutionally independent and not required to engage in any coordinated planning activities, these requirements should not lead to poor performance. It is essential to promote positive government through increased collaboration by identifying philosophical principles that will promote the participation of citizens, law enforcement, judiciary, prosecution, corrections, victims, treatment providers, and educators in the development of strategies to prevent, reduce and control crime. There are approximately twenty states throughout the United States that have fostered criminal justice collaborations of this type. The key to accomplishing this objective is effective leadership. This approach is growing in popularity and this book will assist in the further development of this strategy. This guide provides a step-by-step strategy that simplifies the aforementioned issues. It will be especially advantageous for newly appointed criminal coordinators, planners, and others that are charged with creating a hands-on approach to coordinating their local criminal justice processes. Above all, as criminal justice presses forward to the future, the guide will assist in "bridging the gap" between traditional and contemporary approaches to criminal justice plann

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Communication in drug abuse prevention
ISBN : PURD:32754067894166

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Improving the Nation's Criminal Justice System by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elaine Gunnison,Frances P. Bernat,Lynne Goodstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118793619

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Women, Crime, and Justice by Elaine Gunnison,Frances P. Bernat,Lynne Goodstein Pdf

Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system, providing important new insight to their position as offenders, victims, and practitioners. Draws on global feminist perspectives on female offending and victimization from around the world Covers topics including criminal law, case processing, domestic violence, gay/lesbian and transgendered prisoners, cyberbullying, offender re-entry, and sex trafficking Explores issues professional women face in the criminal justice workplace, such as police culture, judicial decision-making, working in corrections facilities, and more Includes international case examples throughout, using numerous topical examples and personal narratives to stimulate students’ critical thinking and active engagement

Author : Ronald J. Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317049128

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Stress in Policing by Ronald J. Burke Pdf

Stress in policing remains a serious concern for individual officers, their families, their organizations and society at large. As an editor of the Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk series, Ronald J. Burke brings together the latest research findings and intervention strategies, shown to be effective, by an international group of experts. The contributors comprise of a group of high profile researchers and writers who are experts in their respective fields. This edited collection addresses such issues as: The increased risk of international terrorism Racial profiling Police Culture Police integrity Police suicide Inadequate police training The work of police officers exposes them to sources of stress that increase several risks in terms of their psychological and physical health, their family relationships, physical injuries, emotional trauma, ambiguity about their roles in society. Shift work, and undercover work add additional burdens to officers and their families. Police work also places risks on the communities in which officers serve in terms of officers being inadequately trained to deal with mentally ill citizens.

Author : Lol Burke,Steve Collett,Fergus McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315310152

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Reimagining Rehabilitation by Lol Burke,Steve Collett,Fergus McNeill Pdf

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice. Outlining an approach to rehabilitation which takes into account wider democratic processes, political structures and mechanisms of resource allocation, the authors develop a new model of rehabilitation comprising four forms – personal, legal, social and moral. Personal rehabilitation concerns how individuals make their journeys away from offending and towards reintegration and how they can be supported to do so, whilst legal rehabilitation concerns the role of the criminal courts in the process of restricting and then restoring the rights and status of citizens. Moral rehabilitation is concerned with the ethical basis of the interactions between the individual who has offended and the people and organisations charged with providing rehabilitative services. Social rehabilitation explores the crucial contribution civil society can make to rehabilitation, exploring this through the lens of citizenship, community and social capital. Drawing on the conceptual insights offered in the late Stan Cohen’s seminal work – Visions of Social Control – and specifically his insistence that modern social institutions can aspire to doing good and doing justice, the authors argue that these values can underpin a moral pragmatism in designing social interventions that must go beyond achieving simply instrumental ends. Reimaging rehabilitation within the context of social action and social justice, this book is essential reading for students and scholars alike, particularly those engaged with criminal justice policy, probation and offender rehabilitation.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Federal aid to law enforcement agencies
ISBN : PURD:32754075291223

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Law Enforcement Assistance Administration by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime Pdf

Author : Plotnikoff, Joyce,Woolfson, Richard
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447326069

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Intermediaries in the Criminal Justice System by Plotnikoff, Joyce,Woolfson, Richard Pdf

Intermediaries are independent communication specialists who assist children and vulnerable adults who are involved with the criminal justice system—for example, during police interviews or at trial. This is the first book to look in depth at the role of intermediaries and the remarkable success that their increasing involvement with the justice system represents. Built on case studies and interviews, the book offers a comprehensive explanation of the work of intermediaries and their place in the larger criminal justice system.

Author : Brian K. Payne
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Home care services
ISBN : 9780398083540

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CRIME IN THE HOME HEALTH CARE FIELD by Brian K. Payne Pdf

Over the past couple of decades, individuals have come to rely more on home health care visits for their health care needs. While there have been decreases in hospital stays and in the percentage of older persons living in nursing homes the consequence has been the emergence of a new type of occupational crime: home health care abuse. In considering offending in the home health care industry, it is important to focus on crimes by and against home health care professionals. This book is one of the first to fully address abuses occurring in the home health care industry. Its intent is not to suggest that home health care is a dangerous field for workers and consumers; rather, the intent is to shed some light on the types of misconduct found in home health care. Each chapter will include a wealth of examples to illustrate that these incidents actually are real, devastating, and significant. At the end of each chapter the reader will find a series of discussion questions designed to encourage the reader to reflect back on the content of the chapter through the eyes of those involved in the response to home health care fraud. Also included are Web site addresses where readers can learn more about the offenses and other resources to help demonstrate ways to deal with the problem. It is intended for criminal justice officials, health care professionals, academics, and researchers who want to better understand the nature of offending in the home health care industry. It is also intended for use in criminal justice, sociology, and white-collar crime courses exploring crime in the workplace as well as courses examining the home health care field. Chapters include: Home, Home on the Range: Where Health Care is Provided and Crimes are Committed; Home Health Care Professionals as Victims and Witnesses; Crimes by Home Health Professionals: Violence, Theft, and Deception; Responding to Crime in the Home Health Care Field: Strategies, Obstacles, and Issues; and Preventing Home Health Care Misconduct.

Author : Council of Canadian Academies, Expert Panel on the Future of Canadian Policing Models Staff,Council of Canadian Academies. Expert Panel on the Future of Canadian Policing Models
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11
Category : Law enforcement
ISBN : 1926558979

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Policing Canada in the 21st Century by Council of Canadian Academies, Expert Panel on the Future of Canadian Policing Models Staff,Council of Canadian Academies. Expert Panel on the Future of Canadian Policing Models Pdf

Author : Frank Weerman,Catrien Bijleveld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136700606

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Criminal Behaviour from School to the Workplace by Frank Weerman,Catrien Bijleveld Pdf

This volume focuses on the complex relation between offending and the transition from school to the workplace: how employment and education are related to breaking the law and getting in contact with the criminal justice system. The contributors report results from several large scale and sophisticated studies conducted in the Netherlands that gathered rich data on employment, education and criminal behaviour. Each of the studies focuses on a particular period during the life course and particular risk categories. Taken together, they contribute to our understanding of how getting out of school, getting into a job and doing illegal things are intertwined over the life-course, and how these relations differ with age and gender. The background of this volume is our interest in the often-studied relation between offending and employment, or more generally, between offending and the transition from school to work, including dropping out, part-time work and joblessness. The available literature casts little doubt that employment and education are indeed related to less crime and offending. However, this relation is much more complex than it appears at first hand. The volume is primarily aimed at researchers and students in the fields of criminology, sociology and economics. However, it may also be of use for non-academic professionals, in particular policy makers and practitioners in the field of criminal justice, probation/rehabilitation, and youth/schools.

Author : Duncan Chappell,Vittorio Di Martino,International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221179486

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Violence at Work by Duncan Chappell,Vittorio Di Martino,International Labour Office Pdf

Violence at work, ranging from bullying and mobbing, to threats by psychologically unstable co-workers, sexual harassment and homicide, is increasing worldwide and has reached epidemic levels in some countries. This updated and revised edition looks at the full range of aggressive acts, offers new information on their occurrence and identifies occupations and situations at particular risk. It is organised in three sections: understanding violence at work; responding to violence at work; future action.