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CJ499:Unit 5- Leadership
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Purdue University Global
20 November 2018

Leadership Strategies and Practices in Criminal Justice

This presentation analyses roles of organizational culture, behavioral theory, planning, and community relations in criminal justice leadership strategies and practices. The presentation discusses cultures influence on criminal behavior, influence of cultures on justice systems, and the role of cultures on transnational crime.

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Role of Organizational Culture on Criminal Justice Leadership Strategies and Practices
a) Culture of Collaboration and Participation

  • The collaborative and participative culture is equally relevant to the department of criminal justice in the same way it is in large organizations.
  • Employees in this department need to work together and be participative in order to achieve the ultimate goal of justice
  • Collaboration with relevant stakeholders
  • b) Supportive leadership Style
  • Support of leaders is necessary in the administration of criminal justice
  • Conducive environment for employees
  • Improving employee performance

If employees in the department of criminal justice work together and collaborate; the ultimate goal of criminal justice organizations of providing justice will be achieved. Criminal justice organizations also need to collaborate with relevant stakeholders in order to provide justice

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c) Effective leadership

  • Improving performance of criminal justice organizations
  • Leadership commitment and participation creates organizational culture
  • Building team culture
  • d) Instrumental culture (team building)
  • Oriented on the goal of justice
  • Team work in employees in the department of criminal justice

Effective leadership is essential in the department of criminal justice in order to improve its performance. Committed and participative leaders create a culture of hard work in the department of criminal justice. The instrumental culture encourages team work among employees towards goals of the organization such as giving justice to the society.

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e) Cultural dimensions and diversity

  • Taking of risks and stability (Brough, Brown, & Biggs, 2015)
  • Innovation and aggressiveness
  • Motivating employees to perform in the department of criminal justice
  • Orientation for individuals
  • Essential for the department of criminal justice

There must be dimensions in case the department of criminal justice wants to accomplish the ultimate goal of administering justice to everyone. Cultural dimensions are crucial in motivating employees in this department to take risks and give their best.

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Role of Behavioural Theory in Criminal Justice Leadership Strategies and Practices
i) The Path Goal Theory

  • Leaders in criminal justice should assist their subordinates (junior officers) in attaining life goals
  • Matching skills and expertise to personal tasks
  • Motivate, advise, counsel and direct subordinate officers

ii) The Transformational Theory

  • Visionary leaders (Birzer, Bayens, & Roberson, 2012)
  • Leaders in criminal justice must create connection and trust among subordinates
  • Realizing potential of subordinates to foster productivity

Creating goals for subordinates and guiding to their attainment will help junior police officers realize their dreams in life. The administration of justice needs transformative leaders who transform subordinates to better leaders in future.

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iii) The Contingency Behavioral Theory

  • Aligning leadership style to criminal justice
  • Matching different leadership styles to the goal of criminal justice
  • Aligning leadership style to employees in criminal justice
  • Iv) Transactional Theory of Behavior
  • Leaders and subordinates in criminal justice to have pre-terms of work
  • Junior police officers take orders from senior officers
  • Applies to hiring of private investigators

The contingency theory applies to criminal justice as leaders need to match their leadership styles to this situation. Justice is the prime goal of criminal justice and the leadership style need to be aligned to it. The transactional theory also applies to criminal justice since taking orders and contractual agreements are inevitable.

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v) Situational Theory of Behavior

  • Police officers need to alter situations in order to combat criminal
  • Leaders in the department need to adjust to different situations
  • Reduce rewards for offending
  • Reducing provocations and temptations
  • Alter leadership style in relation to police officers’ abilities

The situational theory targets both criminals and the staff in criminal justice system. Leaders of criminal justice systems must be ready to adjust in accordance to different situations in order to combat criminology and administer justice to the public.

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Planning and its Relation to Criminal Justice
a) Objectives of Planning

  • Future objectives for criminal justice systems (Jenkins & DeCarlo, 2015)
  • Criminal justice requires strategic planning
  • Defining specific activities and the people responsible for them
  • Allocating resources for activities in criminal justice administration
  • b) The Six Stage Model of Planning
  • Planning and collecting information on criminology
  • Processing and analysis of the information
  • Dissemination and re-evaluation of vital criminology information

Leaders in the criminal justice systems must lay down plans which lists down the future goals and expectations. Planning must also include clear statement of the six stages of planning in order to achieve the ultimate goal of administering justice. Vital information in the criminal justice system need to be handled with care and planning and allocating tasks can achieve this goal.

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c) The Planning Process

  • Initial agreement on tenacity of the plan, resources to be used and steps necessary for the administration of justice
  • Ascertaining and clarification of external mandates in the department
  • Analysing stakeholders in the process
  • d) Plan on Environment Assessment
  • Realizing strengths and weaknesses of the department of criminal justice
  • Realizing opportunities and threats of internal and external environments
  • Description of the future of criminal justice systems

The management of the criminal justice systems need to agree on the purpose of the plan, resources as well as the essential steps in the administration of justice. Assessing the environment is equally important for the department of criminal justice to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to criminal justice organizations.

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d) Strategic planning

  • Criminal justice organizations need strategic plans to conform to dynamic changes in the environment
  • Define current status of criminal justice systems
  • Define the expected future status of criminal justice systems
  • Clarifying future direction and vision of the criminal justice department
  • Promoting teamwork, raise performance, productivity and efficiency.

Strategic planning is important for the department of criminal justice. Strategic planning highlights current and future goals of the system. Strategic planning ensures there is a clearly stated directing procedure for the future.

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Community Relations and Criminal Justice Systems
i) Socioeconomic Status of the Community

  • Equal service to people despite differences in socioeconomic statuses (Cronkhite & Cronkhite, 2013)
  • Maintain contacts with all people despite socioeconomic status
  • No discrimination by police regarding middle class and high classes of income
  • call for positive evaluation by servicing the public equally

The relationship between justice administrators determine evaluations of the justice system from the public. The criminal justice system should not take sides in regards to socioeconomic status and should provide equal services for everyone in the community.

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ii) Race and minority groups

  • Most people in the U.S. associate crime with the black minorities
  • The black minority ate the criminal justice system less favourably compared to the whites
  • Police and the department of criminal justice should seek justice for the public without racial discrimination
  • Build strong relationships with all minority groups to increase public confidence

The criminal justice system need to create and build extremely strong relationships with the public regardless of race and age in order to increase faith and confidence of the public on the system.

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iii) Evaluations Based on Age

  • The police should maintain frequent contacts with young people
  • Crimes affect the young more than the aged
  • Police should avoid negative contacts with the young people
  • Younger age groups may rate police at lower rates

The criminal justice systems need to pay close attention to the young because they are mostly affected by violent crimes.

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References

This slide lists down the references from which I borrowed information and ideas in the preparation of this presentation.

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