ABSTRACT
As noted in Chapter 1, the juvenile justice system consists of a variety of public and private organizations and public agencies. A system is dešned as, “a complex whole consisting of interdependent parts whose operations are directed toward goals and are inºuenced by the environment in which they function” (Champion 2005, 247). On the basis of this dešnition, it is di–cult to claim that the laws, agencies, and organizations that have some function relating to the administration of juvenile justice constitute a system, except in a general way. ey all have the goal of attending to the interests of youths and the community, but each agency has a specišc function, and at times it may appear as if one agency may be in conºict with another on policy matters, operating procedures, and other matters pertaining to the manners in which youths are serviced. It is better to think of the juvenile justice system in terms of the ways agencies are involved in processing and providing needed supervision and care for those youths who are brought into the system. ese agencies are loosely connected, with each agency having its specišc goals. In addition, the administrative model
e Juvenile Justice System 23 Administration and Management 24 Leadership 24 Tasks Administrators Perform 25 Case Study: e Tasks of a Juvenile Court Administrator 28 Vision, Mission, Objectives, Goals, and Strategies 35 Organizational eory and Administrative Models 37 e Individual Working in a Bureaucratically Structured Organization 39 e Professional Working in a Bureaucratically Structured Organization 40 Conclusion 41 References 42
needed to accomplish the goals may di€er, depending on the type of function performed by the agency.
