Class, This week’s assignment was a discussion on three (3) unique characteristics of criminal justice agencies that have characteristics of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is defined “as a government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority” (staff, 2017) In my research I found that every Criminal Justice agency has a type of bureaucracy in it system. In every Bureaucracy, every task is broken down into multiple levels into a type of division of labor. The division of labor is not a new idea but its simplicity is what makes it efficient. Henry Ford capitalized on this idea with the assembly line. In Criminal Justice agencies, the principle is the same every person in that specific agency
