Citation

Cassidy RG. Socioecon Plann Sci 1975; 9(6): 301-312.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, Pergamon Press)

DOI

10.1016/0038-0121(75)90034-8

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The "systems approach" has been widely touted as the perspective for planning and evaluation in government. The comprehensiveness of the approach together with its flexibility has generated many supporters from the ranks of some of the more narrow discipline related approaches. However, these virtues are only as strong as the analyst that purports to use this methodology. The paper explores the approach both at a tactical level in analizing the total criminal justice process with "systems" models and at the strategic level in dealing with the organizational environment and the planning, implementation and evaluation of new criminal justice programs and policies. 1.
1. develop a basic quantitative description of that system;
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2. assist in the planning of policy and program changes by agencies involved in the administration of that system; and,
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3. serve as the foundation for future analyses and research on the system.