Thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the most current events and information, Law Enforcement and Justice
Administration: Strategies for the 21st Century, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive examination of the prevailing
criminal justice organizations present in law enforcement, courts, and correctional systems. Using a realistic,
field-based approach that combines theory with application, this text explores the operations, issues, and practices
that administrators within criminal justice face today. This Second Edition blends historic administrative themes
and concepts with contemporary issues and future trends. Throughout the text, the Contextual Themes Model (Organization,
Employee Relations, Open Systems, Social Equity, Client-oriented Service) of criminal justice administration is
provided to aid the readers in connecting the concepts of administration to key terms, theories, and ultimately
to the application of the concepts.Law Enforcement and Justice Administration, Second Edition is organized into
three parts. Part I develops key concepts from the history of administrative practices and organizes them into
the five Contextual Themes. Part II applies these administrative concepts to contemporary criminal justice administration
using the Contextual Themes. Part III explores the application of the key concepts with discussions on the cutting-edge
issues that face criminal justice administrators now and in the future.Every new copy is packaged with a FREE student
access code to unlock a variety of interactive study tools on the student companion website!Key Features:-- Now
available in paperback!-- Revised figures and tables and updated statistics throughout present the most current
trends and data in criminal justice administration.-- Contains new Current Status sections at the conclusion of
chapters in Parts II and III summarizing the latest trends discussed.-- Key terms and concepts listed at the end
of each chapter