Justice Administration

Another way to view organizations is as systems that take inputs, process them, and thus produce outputs. These outputs are then sold in the marketplace or given free to citizens in the form of a service.  A police agency, for example, processes reports of criminal activity and, like other systems, attempts to satisfy the customer (crime victim).  There are other types of inputs by police agencies; for example, a robbery problem might result in an input of newly created robbery surveillance teams, the processing would be their stakeouts, and the output would be the number of subsequent arrests by the team.