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Getting Rid of the Prima Donnas

The Bureaucratization of a Probation Department

JOHN ROSECRANCE

University of Nevada, Reno

The accommodations of criminal justice personnel to changes in organizational structure is an unresearched phenomenon. Drawing upon qualitative data, I present a historical accounting of how probation officers responded to the bureaucratization of their department. Patterns of accommodation resembled those described by Presthus as (1) upwardly mobile, (2) indifferent, and (3) ambivalent. An analysis of these patterns helps provide an understanding of organizational dynamics prevailing in contemporary agencies. Those officers most suited to a bureaucratic setting dominate today's probation practice.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 2, 138-155 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854887014002002
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