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service provided (McNamara, 2007). Investors are relied on to buy stock in the business, or in the case of sole pro‐ prietorships, to fund the business until a pro�t is gener‐ ated. In the end, the results are the pro�ts yielded from the sales of the product or service. These pro�ts may be distributed among the investors or reinvested back into the organization (McNamara, 2007).

Nonpro�t agencies are created to ful�ll one or more needs of a community. Criminal justice agencies are considered nonpro�t agencies that provide services to society by de‐ terring, preventing, identifying, and processing crime and criminal acts. Even though a nonpro�t organization may generate a pro�t, the goals of these organizations do not include generating monetary earnings, although a service or product may be provided to customers using the agency. By calling an agency nonpro�t, it can be as‐ sumed that the organization is structured in such a way that it is federally and legally forbidden to distribute pro�ts to owners. A pro�t, in this case, means having more revenue than expenditures (McNamara, 2007).

All activities, goals, and values in a nonpro�t organiza‐ tion are centered on the client. Clients are the consumers of the nonpro�t organization’s services. In criminal jus‐ tice, this includes the victim, o�ender, community mem‐ ber, witness, treatment provider, and so forth. The non‐ pro�t is designed to meet the needs of the client (McNamara, 2007) by continually assessing the desires of

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