RT Article
T1 Meet the new boss: Institutional change and loose coupling in parole and probation
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 21
IS 1
SP 1
OP 25
A1 McCorkle, Richard
A1 Crank, John P.
A2 Crank, John P.
LA English
YR 1996
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764202627
AB The authors use the institutional theory of organizations to argue that historical changes in parole and probation are ceremonial in the sense that they are aimed at an institutional audience and have had little effect on the day-to-day work of line-level officers. A review of the history of community corrections in the US suggests that parole and probation can be described in four eras, each era marked by a particular pattern of institutional authority and by corresponding changes in the structure, goals, and policies of parole and probation. By loosely coupling the work of street-level parole and probation agents to organizational goals and policies and minimizing caseload problems via surveillance and information-gathering techniques, the day-to-day activity of parole and probation officers has been largely unaffected.
K1 Probation Officer
K1 Crime Control
K1 Electronic Monitoring
K1 Institutional Change
K1 Criminal Justice
DO 10.1007/BF02887427