Essay On Bureaucracy In Society

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“BUREAUCRACY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND AMERICA” “INTRODUCTION: MAIN TOPIC AND SYNOPSIS” The criminal justice system and America in general has a lot of bureaucracy. The bureaucracy can sometimes become a hindrance to the people that the system is supposed to be helping. Rarely, do we hear anyone state they are glad for bureaucracy or the red tape bureaucracy seems to create. I think myself and many Americans at first glance dislike bureaucracy; however this appears to be the most prevalent organizational model in most businesses. According to our book “we owe many of the original insights regarding the structure and functioning of bureaucracies to the work of the famous sociologist Max Weber (Palmiotto and Unnithan). While watching the movie Brubaker we also saw how bureaucracy worked for and against the prisoners at the prison. The bureaucracy at Wakefield State Prison in the movie showed the works for the prison bureaucracy along with the bureaucracy from community, prison board and government officials. “BODY: GROUP REFLECTION” We believe that some of the major advantages of bureaucracy are “the presence of a hierarchy makes it clear who is in charge and designates individuals at the …show more content…

As we saw throughout the movie Brubaker there were many challenges to a corrupt bureaucratic system. In the movie “we saw rampant abuse and corruption which included sexual assault and torture of inmates, worms in the inmate’s food, inmates being charged for better food or even something as simple as a haircut, insurance fraud of doctor not treating patients, the original doctor charging inmates for care (Tran). The consequences one faced we noticed was the warden being replaced under prison reform. We also noticed the consequences that inmates were treated like humans and with this treatment became better humans in living within the prison

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