From Book News, Inc.
A textbook for students and in-service practitioners with a fundamental knowledge of the history and operations of the police, courts, and corrections subsystems. It informs readers of the primary people, concepts, and terms of justice administration. The volume is divided into six parts: introduction; the police; the courts; corrections; spanning the system--administrative problems and practices; and challenges of the future. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Description
This fourth edition of Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management continues to be the sole book of its kind: an examination of all facets of the criminal justice system as well as several related matters of interest to prospective and actual administrators. It addresses the three components of the justice system: police, courts, and corrections. More than 30 case studies are desseminated throughout the book; also included are chapters on personnel and financial administration, rights of criminal justice employees, technology, discipline and liability, and futures. Articles from Law Enforcement News and other sources are interspersed throughout, and the book has been updated with added sections on ethics, bioterrorism, racial profiling, school violence, vehicle pursuits, judicial selection, jury administration, gender bias, and women in corrections. Useful as an important reference work for justice administrators and others in police departments, the court system, corrections, as well as defense attorneys and prosecuting attorneys.

The publisher, Prentice-Hall Career & Technology
This text provides a single-author exploration of justice administration that encompasses all three components of the criminal justice system -- police, courts, and corrections -- as well as other contemporary administrative matters.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Included again are chapters on personnel and financial administration, the rights of criminal justice employees, and a chapter on technology in the justice system. The sections on communications, community policing, and alternative dispute resolution have also been expanded.

New key features include:

A chapter entitled "Special Challenges: Labor Relations, Discipline, and Liability"Boxed articles from Law Enforcement News and courts- and corrections-related newsletterIncorporation of sections on sexual harassment, police ethics and values, resource allocation, workload, deployment, shifts and scheduling, and truth in sentencingExpansion of material on communications and alternative dispute resolutionAddition of new community policing case studiesAppendix I with a list of related Web sitesAppendix II containing analects of Confucius and Machiavelli and their application to justice administration