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Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 1 What three elements make up an organization? (Answer: D) Structure Purpose Activity All of the above ________________ is a process of integrating, coordinating and utilizing group members to achieve organization objectives. (Answer: Manage...

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 1 What three elements make up an organization? (Answer: D) Structure Purpose Activity All of the above ________________ is a process of integrating, coordinating and utilizing group members to achieve organization objectives. (Answer: Management) ________________ is the process of directing and mobilizing people and their ideas to achieve an organizational goal. (Answer: Leadership) A ______-_______ organization is self-contained and unresponsive to their environments. (Answer: Closed-System) A _______-________ organization takes into account input from their environment as well as outputs services. (Answer: Open-System) Due Process requirements constrain the effectiveness of police officers’ goal to control crime. True or False (Answer: True) Wilson (2000) states that public bureaucracies, like criminal justice agencies, must adhere to the principles of : (Answer: D) Accountability Efficiency Fiscal Integrity Equity All of the above _________ represent police and correctional personnel have fought hard over the years to receive good pay and benefits packages. (Answer: Unions) Organizations are the same in terms of size, structure and purpose. True or False (Answer: False) What major threat has changed the purpose of criminal justice organizations and how they function? (Answer: B) Recession Terrorism Communism Immigration This organization is responsible for solving crime while maintaining due process, reducing community conflicts and providing a stable working environment for officers? (Answer: A) Law Enforcement Courts Corrections None of the above This organization penalizes offenders by requiring retribution and at the same time pursuing justice, deterrence and humaneness? (Answer: B) Law Enforcement Courts Corrections None of the above Punishment, rehabilitation and maintaining order are the main of goals of what criminal justice organization? (Answer: C) Law Enforcement Courts Corrections None of the above _______________ leadership is influenced by the values and culture of its organization (Stojkovic and Farkas, 2003). (Answer: Correctional) Managers establish a shared vision in order to motivate and inspire a group movement toward that vision. True or False (Answer: False) An organization is responsible for planning, budgeting, setting short-term goals and procedures. True or False (Answer: False) Criminal justice organizations have a sole office that manages the organization. True or False. (Answer: False) What major concept(s) makeup organizational theory? (Answer: C) Leadership Management Both A and B None of the above What author(s) suggests “that leaders motivate by articulation of a vision that stresses values of the audience being addressed…..involving people in deciding how to achieve that vision….enlisting the enthusiastic support of their efforts at achieving that vision… and the public recognition and rewarding of all their successes”. (Answer: D) Weber (1947) Clynch and Neubauer (1981) Lipsky (1980) Kotter (1990) None of the above History shows that law enforcement has based their policies and procedures on a traditional form of policing and our now trying to implement what type of procedure? (Answer: B) COMPSTAT Community Policing POP (Problem Oriented Policing) None of the above Public __________ has led to tougher sentences, which in turn have caused prison and jail overcrowding and increased levels of prisoner violence. (Answer: Conservatism) Community treatment programs are an example of what type of system(s)? Open-system Closed-system Both A and B None of the above Criminal justice organizations are rather complex because various perceptions are taken into account when working towards a common goal. True or False (Answer: True) Internal groups are a strong source of power that can constrain the purpose and effectiveness of a criminal justice organization. True or False (Answer: True) What major issue is omnipresent in criminal justice organizations in the 21st century that has ignited a competition among agencies? Budget cuts Lack of proper management Poor leadership None of the above Organizations are rich in politics: bargaining, negotiating, and intimidation by their members in order to attain resources, power, status and influence. True or False (Answer: True) A latent goal of an organization is _____________, which usually translates into competition for resources and constant expansion. (Answer: Survival) Socialization in criminal justice organizations involves common attitudes, common values and organizational___________. (Answer: Ethos) Organizations are limited to performing within their boundaries (i.e. structure) that are rigidly bureaucratic. True or False (Answer: False) The constraints on organizational goals has one benefit based on: Wright’s (1981) statement that, “goal conflict is in fact desirable and that unified criminal justice system with consensus about goals would be undesirable”, which is Freedom. True or False (Answer: True) Test Bank: Management Leadership Close-system Open-system Unions Correctional Conservatism Survival Ethos