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Criminal justice: An emerging academic profession and discipline
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In this article, the authors examined the recent history and current trends of criminal justice educational programs in light of traditional definitions of professions, disciplines, and sciences and concluded that criminal justice is clearly emerging as a unique academic profession and as a nontraditional discipline.About:
This article is published in Journal of Criminal Justice.The article was published on 1976-12-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Theory of criminal justice & Criminal justice ethics.read more
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An Assessment of Criminal Justice and Criminology Journal Prestige
TL;DR: The results from a survey of ACJS and ASC members show that, while generally stable over time, some significant changes in journal prestige ratings have occurred as mentioned in this paper, mainly due to divergences between criminologists and justicians.
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Publication productivity of faculty members in criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the publication productivity of faculty members in 23 programs offering doctorates in criminology, criminal justice, or a closely related discipline, and ranked departments according to the number of journal publications and number of pages published by faculty members from various indexes.
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Patterns of entry, professional identity, and attitudes toward crime-related education: A study of criminal justice and criminology faculty
TL;DR: This article examined full-time faculty and their patterns of entry, including academic degree held, academic major, past academic and agency experience, and type of institution; and the extent to which differing methods of access are associated with attitudes toward research, scholarship, agency practice, academic collegiality, and orientation toward crime-related study.
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Communicating law enforcement professionalization: social construction of standards
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how institutional arrangements and discourses shape law enforcement professionalization efforts, to identify opportunities and potential problems associated with professionalization, and to propose research to address practitioner interests in education and training and public interests in accountability and service equity.
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Corrections Education at the Nexus of Science and Practice: A History of Conscience and Convenience in Achieving Professionalization
TL;DR: The professionalization of corrections through higher education, however, has not been without serious challenges as discussed by the authors, as reformers have been molded to fit the social, economic, and political needs of both universities and corrections organizations to meet the contemporary demands of evidence-based corrections.
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Professionalization and bureaucratization
TL;DR: In this article, structural and attitudinal aspects of professionalization and the organizational settings in which many professional occupations exist are analyzed, and it is suggested that the presence of professionals in an organization affects the structure of the organization, while at the same time, the organizational structure can affect professionalization process.
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Crime, law and social science
TL;DR: Adler and Jerome as mentioned in this paper examined the conditions of a science of the criminal from every point of view-behaviour, environment, treatment and the administration of the law, concluding that there neither is, nor can, nor is there a crime science of criminology until the studies upon which such a science is dependent, namely, psychology and sociology, are themselves placed upon a scientific basis.
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Introduction to criminal justice
TL;DR: The criminal justice decision network as mentioned in this paper describes the criminal justice system in the United States, including the police, the courts, pretrial release, and defense lawyers, the prosecutor's decisions and plea bargaining arraignment and trial sentencing criminals and appeals.
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Criminology and the Criminologist
TL;DR: The author is Associate Professor of Sociology in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Director of a basic research project entitled "The Measurement of Delinquency."