CJ 330 Module 1 Short Paper: LODESTAR and Managerial Functions in CJ

This assignment analyzes the LODESTAR framework, which outlines the primary managerial functions in criminal justice, including leading, organizing, deciding, evaluating, staffing, training, allocating, and reporting. The paper summarizes LODESTAR, and identifies the three most important functions of a criminal justice manager, emphasizing the importance of these functions in ensuring fair trials, preventing abuse of power, and adapting to changes within the justice system. The assignment also highlights the importance of evaluating, leading, and managing various aspects related to injustice or crime. The paper further discusses how managers must perform their duties to avoid prejudice and injustice in their actions, ensuring effective delivery of justice investigation results.

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Summary of LODESTAR
LODESTAR is a fresh abbreviation and symbol that represents the tasks or essential
duties of the managers to manage their managerial functions. Some of these functions are
represented by the Gulick and some of them are found closely related to the suggestions
with adding some new identified with the development and changes in the priorities in the
present days. Detailed analysis of LODESTAR abbreviation is
1. L- Leading
2. O- Organizing
3. D- Deciding
4. E- Evaluating
5. S- Staffing
6. T- Training
7. A- Allocating
8. R- Reporting
These are related to attributes essential to manage in the leading of the organized team with
the effective decision making skills and application of skills of staffing with effective
allocation and making the final reporting in managerial functions (Freeman).
Function 1 of a Criminal Justice Manager
Criminal justice managers investigate the serious issues of the offence and are assumed to
manage the investigation process transparent and clear. Most of the time offence includes
two parties accused and victim. All obligation of a criminal justice manager falls to
deliver the true fats of the case without making any act of Wrongful Pursuit of Personal
Gain from the accused or from victim side. This function relates the evaluation function
of LODESTAR, where essential managerial function of criminal justice is to evaluate the
fats and deliver the truth without any personal interest (Kalidien, Choenni and Meijer).
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Function 2 of a Criminal Justice Manager
Criminal Justice Managers are obliged to perform their activities focusing the fulfillment
of their duties does not affect the others obligation or rights. Making the judicial
decisions during the investigation requires the fair treatment without ignorance or Neglect
of One’s Duties and facts. Major failure of a manager in the criminal justice and
investigation falls as nonfeasance, misfeasance, and malfeasance covering the grounds of
truthful nature of the manager (Stojkovic, Kalinich and Klofas).
Function 3 of a Criminal Justice Manager
Abuse of Power is the common factor affects the managerial functions and obligation of
the Criminal Justice Managers. Leading is the act of guidance to the other towards any
goal, because leader holds the power to guide and manage the followers it not allows a
leader to misuse or abuse power of leadership. Hence a Criminal Justice Manager
performing the role of leader to lead the team for the fair trial and investigation have to
manage the use of powers in proper way without abusing the powers and authorities.
Importance of Functions
Change is universal and dynamic, with the passage of time many changes have been
occurred in the process of investigation of the criminal justice procedure and its
managerial activities (Stojkovic, Kalinich and Klofas). To manage the performance with
the changes environment Criminal Justice Managers need to perform their duties based
on the functions to avoid prejudice and injustice in their actions. The three functions
include the effective leading, managing and evaluating the factors and single aspects
related to the act of injustice or crime falls under the duties to manage the effective
delivery of the justice investigation result by the managers.
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Bibliography
Freeman, Richard, B. "The US Economic Model at Y2K: Lodestar for Advanced
Capitalism?." National Bureau of Economic Research (2000): No. w7757.
Kalidien, S, S Choenni and R Meijer. "Crime statistics online: potentials and challenges."
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Digital Government Research
Conference on Public Administration Online: Challenges and Opportunities (2010):
131-137.
Stojkovic, S, D Kalinich and J Klofas. Criminal justice organizations: Administration and
management. Cengage Learning, 2014.
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