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Figure 1.2 Organizational Chart of Medium-Sized Probation Department

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Organizations are also structured as systems (discussed in detail in Chapters 2 and 3). Basically, this means that organizations have inputs, outputs, processes, and feed‐ back. The whole system is designed to accomplish the or‐ ganizational goal(s) (McNamara, 2007). Inputs are taken in by the organization that include such things as re‐ sources, money, technology, people, and so forth. The in‐ puts are used to produce a process whereby the people in the organization spend money and resources on activities that meet the mission of the organization in hopes that the identi�ed goals will be accomplished. The outputs are the tangible results (e.g., products, services, or jobs; or in the case of criminal justice, lowered crime rates, better protection, etc.) of the e�orts produced in the process (McNamara, 2007). These are identi�able by those out‐ side of the organization and are generally used to deter28% of sample

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