Problem
Source: Stojkovic, S.; Kalinich, D.; and Klofas, J. (2015). Criminal Justice Organizations: Administration and management (6 edition). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
a) To what extent does an agency's reliance on its folklore to enhance its self-image impede planned change? Police agencies, for example, may see themselves as fighting a war on crime, or corrections administrators may see the primary role of their institutions as rehabilitation.
b) A growing number of line-level criminal justice practitioners have college degrees. Will the advanced education of these practitioners create greater or less resistance to change from within criminal justice organizations?