Unethical behavior in the criminal justice system

Managerial Practices Executive Summary

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CJA 484: criminal justice administration capstone

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Abstract
Organizational behavior is essential to the everyday connection of the criminal justice. Analyzing organizational behavior implies, conducting one's self in both life and employment with the utmost professionalism and moral standards. Several professional values apply across the three arms of the criminal justice system that include discipline, diligence, and servitude. To maintain professional standards within a department, one must remain ethical in the decisions that are made on a daily basis.

Managerial Practices Executive Summary
Most high performing and lucrative organizations rely on certain concepts and practices to maintain their high functionality rate and to keep unethical behaviors to a minimum. Like many fortune 500 companies, criminal justice organizations face the same problems when it comes to inner organizational behavior. Unethical behavior, lack of professionalism is just two of the many issues management has to deal with in the criminal justice field. This executive summary will elaborate on different methods used to control organizational behavior as well as methods that are useful for managers who operate daily within a criminal justice setting. This summary intends to focus on identifying the professional standards and values that are necessary within the criminal justice field and how they can be applied on a national level.

Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior is essential to the everyday connection of the criminal justice. Analyzing organizational behavior implies, conducting one's self in both life and employment with the utmost professionalism and moral standards. Being in an individual in a leadership position, it is their responsibility to hold subordinates in their charge to models of moral practices at all times. Just as it is a parent's responsibility to train a child in the same manner. Initially, children do not grasp the concept of morality. However, they do comprehend what actions fall where. Inside the field of criminal justice, those of leadership roles must show others how it's done, or run the risk of having subordinates who do not act accordingly. Junior officers often mirror their manager, and the general population will notice. If the public views law enforcement acting unprofessional, their trust within the officers diminishes.

Professional values

Several professional values apply across the three arms of the criminal justice system. One of the values is discipline; discipline is key to the operation and efficiency of law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities. Police officers adhere to a chain of command, and correctional officers instill discipline in prisoners. Another professional standard key to the courts is diligence; courts diligently apply the law to ensure justice. The courts also adhere to the professional standard of honesty; during a case all participants are sworn to honesty, this allows the proper application of the law and justice. A value common to all the three branches of the criminal justice system is servitude, police officers, judges, correctional officials, and all other employees of the criminal justice system give their services to the public to ensure justice law and order.

Conclusion

In closing, one must understand that the criminal justice system requires all departments to have an established set of core values to function efficiently. To maintain professional standards within a department, one must remain ethical in the decisions that are made on a daily basis. It is the job of the administrator or manager to ensure that the agency performs at high levels of effectiveness. One must combine training, motivation, discipline, performance, equality, and leadership into an effective plan that can be effectively communicated to all members of his or her agency. Today, in the criminal justice system there are many issues that try to divide the unity that has been established. Utilizing proper management theories and tools to keep unity amongst a department has never been more important.

References

Wood, & Gannon. (2013). Public Opinion and Criminal Justice: Context Practice and Values. Routledge.