CCJ4450 Exam 3 Questions And Answers
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Do organizations dissolve? - Answers✔No
Why may criminal justice organizations interact with each other? - Answers✔- share information
- provide backup/support
- coordinate activities
collaborative advantages - Answers✔- allows organizations to produce superior outcomes
- reduced cost
- more meaningful crime reduction efforts
are criminal justice organizations incentivized to work together? - Answers✔no
consequences of criminal justice organizations NOT working together - Answers✔repetition
- duplication of efforts
omission
- tasks may get ignored due to not being identified as important
divergence
- outcomes get diluted due to each organization pursuing individual goals
counter-production
- goals of each organization cancel each other out
synergy - Answers✔the power that results from the combination of goals
have organizations historically been pushed to work alone? - Answers✔yes
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collaboration impediments - Answers✔- organizations lose some degree of control/flexibility
- resources expended with less guarantee of success
- individual participants more likely to assert turf claims
- have to share both success and failures
collaboration examples - Answers✔- law enforcement task forces
- police-corrections partnerships
- researcher-practitioner partnerships
law enforcement task forces - Answers✔- oldest kind of collaboration
- multijunctural (MJTF) local state and federal law enforcement come together to achieve a
specific crime reduction response
- federal grant funding
police-corrections partnerships - Answers✔- much newer
- collab between law enforcement and prisons
- requires law enforcement to be proactive
- share info
- federal funding available
examples of police-corrections partnerships - Answers✔- tattoo and graffiti info (TAG unit), FBI
and corrections work together to identify inmate tattoos to identify gang activity and human
trafficking victims
- ATF (alcohol, tobacco, and firearms) firearm trafficking, helps to close cases across
jurisdictions
researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) - Answers✔- collaborations between researchers and
criminal justice organizations
- most common with researchers and law enforcement
- work together to get info on a certain issue
- found to be an effective way to translate research into policy/practice
- lots of federal grant funding available
what makes a successful RPP? - Answers✔- establishment of relationships (MOST
IMPORTANT)
- clear goals
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