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Backlogs are a dynamic system, not a warehousing problem

Addressing casework backlogs would seem to represent “low hanging fruit” for increasing offender apprehension and improving justice. Yet, after years of grant funding for backlog reduction and capacity building, backlogged cases, especially DNA cases, continue to increase in U.S. forensic laboratori...

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Autor principal: Houck, Max M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7662868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33225253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2020.10.003
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description Addressing casework backlogs would seem to represent “low hanging fruit” for increasing offender apprehension and improving justice. Yet, after years of grant funding for backlog reduction and capacity building, backlogged cases, especially DNA cases, continue to increase in U.S. forensic laboratories. Why? This paper suggests a shift from linear, mechanical thinking to a systems thinking approach may help to see ways to leverage laboratories from dysfunctional operational states burdened by history to new ways of seeing themselves as part of a system of systems. The A3 method is offered as a practical approach to initiating a systems approach.
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spelling pubmed-76628682020-11-20 Backlogs are a dynamic system, not a warehousing problem Houck, Max M. Forensic Sci Int Synerg Policy and Management (in memory of Jay Siegel) Addressing casework backlogs would seem to represent “low hanging fruit” for increasing offender apprehension and improving justice. Yet, after years of grant funding for backlog reduction and capacity building, backlogged cases, especially DNA cases, continue to increase in U.S. forensic laboratories. Why? This paper suggests a shift from linear, mechanical thinking to a systems thinking approach may help to see ways to leverage laboratories from dysfunctional operational states burdened by history to new ways of seeing themselves as part of a system of systems. The A3 method is offered as a practical approach to initiating a systems approach. Elsevier 2020-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7662868/ /pubmed/33225253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2020.10.003 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full_unstemmed Backlogs are a dynamic system, not a warehousing problem
title_short Backlogs are a dynamic system, not a warehousing problem
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7662868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33225253
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