Question

Discuss the limitations of leadership in criminal justice organizations. Do the best individuals become criminal justice administrators or managers? If not, why not? In addition, are many of the problems associated with or attributed to criminal justice leadership really leadership problems? Using prison overcrowding, as an example. Can we expect a prison warden to effectively manage an overcrowded prison?

Answer 1

I)Limitations of leadership in criminal justice organizations- The limitations include-

1)-the lack of initiative among the top police officers and criminal justice officers to accept the leadership regulations power and authority .

2)The government spends millions of dollars for the upliftment of the DARE( Drug abuse resistance program) but still there is lack of awareness before the intake of these narcotic drugs.

3) Various theories of leadership qualities have been developed but there is lack of implementation of the theories in real life.

4)lack of objectives, initiation and motivation among the criminal justice administrators or managers to lead the organization.

5)lack of manpower in the criminal justice organizations to lead important tasks and take important decisions in life.

6)lack of training modules and lack of organization of workshops which provide special training to develop the abilities to take important decisions in the organization.

7)lack of advancement of technology which can provide valid proof of the scene of the crime in the investigation agency.

II)Yukl leadership qualities are discussed to develop the potential among leaders in criminal justice organizations and the problems associated with them---

• genuine request by the client-- The client should give genuine evidence of the occurence of the crime in various situations.
• use of threat and coercion--The agency or organization can use death threat to extract the evidence of the scene of crime from the person convicted.
• compliance--this allows the flexibilty and altering of facts according to the situation with more time duration to analyze the reason of crime.
• appeal and justification- it allows the agency to compromise after the victim reveals the important facts regarding the scene of crime after the availability of all the facilities within a time frame.
• opinionated doctrination--it includes the provision of all the facilities and the organization and agency dictates that the behavior of the person should be according to the facilities provided to them with the exact relevation of facts and important details important and prevalent at the scene of crime.
• distortion of facts and details--This includes the flexibility and change of the presentation of the facts in a distorted way so that it appears that the situation was justified to commit such mistake.
• structural engineering of the place--it includes the change of the locality and living place of the person after the real facts and evidences are disclosed by the person.
• the takeover of the california prison and organization by the supreme court of the USA--It includes the decision of the court to prevent the overcrowding of the person in the jail and to devise ways to move them to other locations according to the intensity of the crime and the duration of imprisonment in the jail.
• Behavioral models-- It includes the interaction of the jail wardens with the criminals to understand their needs and their requirements in jail. It includes an observation of the daily activities of the criminals according to the crime that they have committed.
• Managerial grid for the analysis of the Ohio state jail organization and Michigan criminal organization studies-- It includes the analysis of the understanding of the case files of the criminals in the organization with their rehabilitation. It was devised by Mouton and Blake.
• III) Contingency theories discuss the importance of the relationship between the warden and the criminals in the jail. The warden of the criminal organization has important obligations and limitation within which the running of the organization needs to be discussed.
• Fiedler contingency concept-- It includes the study of the reliability, trust and confidence among the employers and the colleagues in running the organization .It is based on mutual understanding, good communication, and ability to take important decisions at the correct time with full confidence. The position power includes the power and authority of the person to take important decisions in life which includes the ability to hire and fire subordinates during working in the organization. It includes the special powers that are not under the authority of the police sergeants. They are under the authority of political persons, civil servants and highest authority police officers.