Part I- SELECT ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES. -- Chapter 1. A NEO-INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNT OF PRISONIZATION -- Chapter 2. “OUT OF BOUNDS”: THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONALIZED BOUNDED RATIONALITY ON JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING -- Chapter 3. A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICYMAKING -- Chapter 4. APPLICATION OF CONTINGENCY THEORY TO THE “WORKFORCE CRISIS” IN POLICING -- Chapter 5. AN ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS APPROACH FOR IDENTIFYING SIDE EFFECTS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORMS -- Chapter 6. AN APPLICATION OF STRUCTURATION THEORY TO CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS -- Part II- SELECT ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPTS & IDEAS -- Chapter 7. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN POLICE ORGANIZATIONS: APPLYING THE LENS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CLIMATE -- Chapter 8. TOWARD AN ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE OF DELINQUENCY PREVENTION: THE MISSING LINK FOR UNDERSTANDING SCHOOL DELINQUENCY -- Chapter 9. ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS IN CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMMING -- Chapter 10. POWER, DISCRETION, AND THE LANDSCAPE OF CONTEMPORARY PROSECUTION -- Chapter 11. ENDURING HARM AS A BY-PRODUCT OF PROSECUTORS’ POWER OVER EXONEREES POST-INCARCERATION -- Chapter 12. MISCONDUCT ROUTINIZATION IN CRIMINAL LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS: AN EXPLOSIVE CLUSTER OF FEEDBACK LOOPS -- Chapter 13. BOYCOTTING THE UNIFORM CRIME REPORT: ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF COOPERATIVE FAILURES BY POLICE FOR FEDERAL CRIME REPORTING -- Chapter 14. BEYOND JUST A FEW ‘BAD APPLES:’ ORGANIZATIONAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT AS DEVIANT SUBCULTURES -- Chapter 15. LEADERSHIP IN LAW ENFORCEMENT -- Chapter 16. CONCLUSION & FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

This book explicitly and intentionally uses organizational theory concepts and ideas to examine key issues in the criminal legal realm. Addressing some of the many organizational theories, this volume examines a variety of approaches and theoretical frameworks to explore and explain challenges that are both presented to and faced by the criminal legal system and the individuals served by or working within it. This volume is divided into two parts: organizational theories and organizational concepts and ideas. Within these parts, individual chapters provide readers with new lenses or frameworks for considering criminal legal organization, including one that involves organizational theoretical explanations for how and why criminal legal organizations and their staff and workers operate in these critically salient spaces. The book concludes with a chapter that outlines important considerations for anyone seeking to learn or teach organizational theory as a way of explaining or understanding criminal legal organizations. Additional reading suggestions and two sample syllabi are provided. The book is ideal for criminal justice and criminology undergraduate and graduate students, but is also relevant to individuals considering criminal legal organizations in courses in sociology, law and society, and organizational behavior.