General systems theory and criminal just
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Thomas J. Bernard; Eugene A. Paoline III; Paul-Philippe Pare
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Criminal justice agencies are organized sequentially -boutputQ from one agency is binputQ to the next -but most scholars argue that criminal justice is not a system in a theoretical sense. In this article, it is argued that general systems theory (GST) reveals important insights into criminal justic