Local Programs and State Dollars: Performance Reward Funding and Intergovernmental Relations in Texas Criminal Justice

Abstract

As technological advances cause governmental activities to become more complex, the traditional bureaucratic style of organization is becoming obsolete The systems perspective, widely utilized in the private sector, may offer promising alternatives This article exemplifies the problems facing corrections with recent attempts in Texas to alleviate prison and jail crowding and suggests how the systems perspecitive may offer alternatives for organizing criminal justice.