TDCJ

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Texas Department of Criminal Justice” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Texas Department of Criminal Justice” and its relation with “Law and Order in the State”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Texas Department of Criminal Justice” and tries to gauge its effect on “the state's proceedings”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Texas Department of Criminal Justice” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Texas Department of Criminal Justice” on “the overall judicial standing of Texas”.

Table of Contents

Abstractii

Texas Department of Criminal Justice1

Introduction to the Agency1

Goals and Objective of the Agency1

Organizational Hierarchy2

Improving the program2

Allan Weaver and his work3

The Criminal behavior is always learned4

Criminal behavior is learned in interaction with others in a process of communication.4

The important process of the criminal behavior involves all the mechanisms7

Criminal behavior is an expression of general needs and attitudes, and the behaviour is explained by the same general needs and attitudes.7

Application of Theories8

Pulling the Stops: The Individual or the State?11

References12

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Introduction to the Agency

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) manages offenders in state prisons, state jails and private correctional facilities that contract with TDCJ. The agency also provides funding and certain oversight of community supervision (previously known as adult probation) and is responsible for the supervision of offenders released from prison on parole or mandatory supervision.

Goals and Objective of the Agency

The basic reason of existence for Texas Department of Criminal Justice has been divided and clearly communicated in their mission statement, which could be divided into realistic objectives, which become driving forces and effective performance targets for the agency to achieve. These are:

Providing public safety;

Promote positive change in offender behaviour;

Reintegrate offenders into society; and

Assist victims of crime.

To be truthful and precise, criminologists do not agree on why crime occur, thus making it a drawback of the field. But the richness in thinking within the criminology also is a demonstration of the difficulty of its subject matter. Like lot of social behaviours, crime is wide-ranging and it is potentially formed by a variety of factors that operate within and outside the individuals, which exist on the macro level and even on the micro level, and that have effects across various points in the life cycle of any person. Revealing that what exactly causes crime is thus an overwhelming task that benefits from various efforts to view the origins from many angles.

Organizational Hierarchy

Improving the program

Criminology is a field that is very rich in academic imagination. To a level, this variety of theorizing reflects the discipline's irresponsibility and its incapability as of yet to develop a single standard which is so empirically better than its competitors that it earns the devotion of most scholars.

Criminology, however, is prepared in a different way. There are many theories or “schools of thought.” To be truthful and precise, criminologists do not agree on why crime occur, thus making it a drawback of ...