CJUS 520 Quiz 1,2,3

CJUS 520 Quiz 1

1. What three elements make up an organization?
2. is a process of integrating, coordinating and utilizing group members to achieve organization objectives.
3. Due Process requirements constrain the effectiveness of police officers’ goal to control crime.
4. A ______-_______ organization is self-contained and unresponsive to their environments.
5. What major threat has changed the purpose of criminal justice organizations and how they function?
6. History shows that law enforcement has based their policies and procedures on a traditional form of policing and our now trying to implement what type of procedure?
7. Internal groups are a strong source of power that can constrain the purpose and effectiveness of a criminal justice organization.
8. A latent goal of an organization is _____________, which usually translates into competition for resources and constant expansion.
9. The constraints on organizational goals has one benefit based on: Wright’s (1981) statement that, “goal conflict is in fact desirable and that unified criminal justice system with consensus about goals would be undesirable”, which is Freedom.
10. Organizations are rich in politics: bargaining, negotiating, and intimidation by their members in order to attain resources, power, status and influence.
11. Criminal justice organizations are rather complex because various perceptions are taken into account when working towards a common goal.
12. A latent goal of an organization is _____________, which usually translates into competition for resources and constant expansion.
13. The constraints on organizational goals has one benefit based on: Wright’s (1981) statement that, “goal conflict is in fact desirable and that unified criminal justice system with consensus about goals would be undesirable”, which is Freedom.
14. Organizations are limited to performing within their boundaries (i.e. structure) that are rigidly bureaucratic.
15. What author(s) suggests “that leaders motivate by articulation of a vision that stresses values of the audience being addressed…..involving people in deciding how to achieve that vision….enlisting the enthusiastic support of their efforts at achieving that vision… and the public recognition and rewarding of all their successes”

CJUS 520 Quiz 2

1. A structured organization attains their organizational goals by ensuring that its members follow the required guidelines in order to achieve its purpose.
2. An organic organization is also known as a bureaucratic, formal and hierarchical system.
3. What makes up the organization’s mission, policies, procedures, and also forms a hierarchy that dictates the purpose of the organization?
4. The need for ___________ has also resulted in simplifying sentencing decisions with legislated sentencing guidelines that judges are required to follow.
5. The hierarchical structure of a bureaucracy forces official communication to occur ___________?
6. Within an organic organization tasks are not specialized and any member of the agency may have the expertise or knowledge to take on a variety of tasks.
7. An example of a mechanistic organization is?
8. Research consists of the establishment of rules and regulations, usually written, that govern the work activities of an agency’s personnel.
9. The ________ process of receiving and allocating funds in order to operate and achieve its mission.
10. ________ and ___________ are often considered or identified as policies and procedures.
11. A formal structure includes goals, activities, or structures that are not officially acknowledged.
12. What are some of the key assumptions underlying structural frame?
13. Open systems are hierarchical, formal, and mechanistic.
14. Based on Bolman and Deal (2003) there are four organization frames: structural frame, human resource frame, political frame and symbolic frame.

CJUS 520 Quiz 3

1. How many steps are in the communication process?
2. The Patriot Act gave agencies leeway in obtaining search warrants, searching without a warrant
3. What is the first step of the communication process?
4. All of these are communication barriers and/or alter the meaning of the message, except?
5. The more gates that communication must pass through, the more likely it is that the message will pass rapidly and will not be altered.
6. Computer crimes are a big concern since the creation of innovative technological advances; which is/are examples of computer crimes?
7. Criminal justice agencies are bound by __________ that direct their activities. Sanctions
8. Which prison demographic poses a great financial cost for the criminal justice system?
9. Within an organization what type of network is formed more for personal than for professional motives and may not have much to do with the goals of their agency?
10. The rate and complexity of communication inputs to an individual, are known as:
11. Communication barriers exist more in the criminal justice system than in other systems because of checks and balances.
12. Perceptions tend to alter the communication process within criminal justice organizations.
13. The _______ center is a mechanism for exchanging information and intelligence.
14. Organizational networks are mutually exclusive and they tend to overlap.
15. Upward communication among organizational members at the same level can facilitate task coordination, provide a means of sharing information, provide a formal channel of communication for problem solving, and facilitate mutual support for staff involved.