Discuss and explore what the future may hold for criminal justice administrators

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

• Stojkovic et. al. believe that across the components of the criminal justice system a greater emphasis will be placed on the creation of appropriate knowledge, data, and information to address crime. There will be expectations by public groups, private concerns, and the government itself that criminal justice administrators do things in a different way.
• Criminal justice administration has evolved as society as evolved. The Internet, integrated data systems and files, more invasive surveillance technologies, and ways to train and supervise employees electronically will become the mainstream of criminal justice operations. With these changes will come the possibility of greater review of the operations of their criminal justice systems by communities.
• Concerns about accountability will become more pronounced, and criminal justice administrators will have to justify their requests for increased dollars and personnel to combat crime. With this increased accountability will come more concern for how criminal justice administrators are recruited, selected, and retained. At the core of these activities will be the search for knowledge, data, and information.
• Unlike his or her predecessors in the twentieth century, the twenty-first century criminal justice administrator will have more expectations placed upon him or her, resources will be tighter, and questions of effectiveness and efficiency will be recurrent. How these new criminal justice administrators respond to these concerns will be the essence of criminal justice administration into the future.