Administration of Justice Careers - Criminology

Administration of justice is a field title that means different things in different institutional contexts — a degree program name at many community colleges and universities, a professional identity for senior leaders of criminal justice agencies, and a functional description of the organizational management, policy analysis, and program administration work that keeps the criminal justice system operating as a set of functional institutions rather than a collection of individual practitioners. Understanding what administration of justice careers involve requires understanding both the specific positions that carry administrative titles — police chief, corrections director, court administrator, probation department director — and the broader ecosystem of management, policy, and program roles that support the operation of criminal justice agencies at every level of government and across every institutional sector. These careers exist within the broader Criminology and Criminal Justice Careers landscape and represent the field’s primary pathway to senior institutional leadership and policy influence.

Introduction

Every police department, sheriff’s office, corrections facility, court system, prosecutor’s office, and probation department is simultaneously a law enforcement or justice institution and an organization — with budgets that must be managed, personnel who must be hired, trained, evaluated, and supervised, policies and procedures that must be developed and enforced, information systems that must be implemented and maintained, community stakeholders who must be engaged, and the political and intergovernmental relationships that public institutions must maintain to function effectively. The practitioners who manage these organizational functions — who lead agencies, direct programs, develop policy, and administer the budgets and personnel systems that institutional operations require — are doing administration of justice work, whether or not their positions carry that title explicitly.

The administration of justice career field encompasses two distinct but related professional streams. The first is the operational leadership stream: the criminal justice practitioners who advance through the institutional hierarchies of law enforcement, corrections, courts, and prosecution to positions of command, executive leadership, and agency direction. The second is the public administration stream: the professional administrators, policy analysts, and program managers who bring organizational management expertise to criminal justice agencies from backgrounds that may or may not include operational field experience. Both streams produce practitioners who are managing and shaping the criminal justice system — from different positions, with different tools, and through different career pathways — and both are essential to the effective administration of the justice institutions that American government maintains.

Understanding administration of justice careers requires situating them within the political and organizational context that public administration research has documented: criminal justice agencies operate under multiple, sometimes conflicting institutional pressures — from legislative funders who appropriate their budgets, from executive political leaders who set policy priorities, from the communities they serve, from professional associations that set standards, and from the internal cultures that shape how organizations actually function (Maguire, 2003). Effective administrators of justice institutions must manage these pressures simultaneously — a challenge that develops the political acumen, organizational skill, and policy knowledge that distinguishes effective leaders from competent but administratively limited operational practitioners.

What Administration of Justice Means

The Field Defined

Administration of justice as a degree program and professional identity has roots in two academic traditions: criminal justice administration programs that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s to professionalize law enforcement leadership, and public administration programs that recognized the growing administrative complexity of government criminal justice agencies. Programs titled Administration of Justice — offered at hundreds of community colleges, universities, and graduate programs across the country — combine criminal justice substantive knowledge (criminal law, criminological theory, corrections, courts) with organizational management content (personnel administration, budget management, policy analysis, organizational behavior, and strategic planning) that prepares graduates for both operational and administrative career tracks within criminal justice.

The American Criminal Justice Association (ACJA) and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) provide professional development resources that administrators of justice institutions use throughout their careers, alongside the specialized professional associations — the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the American Correctional Association (ACA), and the National Association of Court Management (NACM) — that serve the specific institutional sectors where administration of justice careers are concentrated. The field is defined less by a specific credential than by the combination of criminal justice institutional knowledge and organizational management competency that effective administration of complex public safety agencies requires.

Administration of Justice vs. Criminal Justice

The distinction between criminal justice and administration of justice degree programs is largely one of emphasis rather than content: criminal justice programs typically emphasize the study of crime, law, and justice institutions from analytical and policy perspectives, while administration of justice programs emphasize the management and leadership of those institutions from organizational and operational perspectives. Both prepare graduates for the full range of criminal justice careers; the administrative emphasis produces graduates who are specifically prepared for the supervisory, management, and executive roles that neither pure criminal justice study nor general business education fully equips practitioners to perform.

Graduate programs in administration of justice — including Master of Science in Justice Administration, Master of Public Administration with a criminal justice concentration, and the Executive MPA programs designed for mid-career criminal justice administrators — provide the advanced credential that senior administrative positions increasingly require. The movement toward requiring graduate education for police chiefs, corrections directors, and court administrators reflects both the growing complexity of managing large public safety agencies and the research evidence that educated leadership produces better organizational outcomes than operational experience alone (Rydberg & Terrill, 2010). Practitioners who combine strong operational records with graduate education in administration or public policy consistently outcompete those with equivalent operational records but no advanced credential in senior administrative competitions.

Law Enforcement Administration

Police Chief, Sheriff, and Command Leadership

Police chiefs, sheriffs, and the command officers — captains, commanders, and deputy chiefs — who lead law enforcement agencies are the senior practitioners of law enforcement administration, responsible for the full range of organizational functions that public safety leadership requires: personnel management, budget development and execution, policy and procedure, community engagement, political relationship management, strategic planning, labor relations, and the crisis management that incidents of public significance inevitably require. These positions are the career destination toward which law enforcement command advancement leads, and they represent some of the most demanding and most consequential public management positions in state and local government.

Police chief positions at major metropolitan departments — responsible for thousands of sworn and civilian employees, hundreds of millions of dollars in annual budget, and the public safety outcomes of large urban populations — are senior public executive positions that require both operational credibility within the law enforcement profession and the organizational management competency that leading complex bureaucracies demands. Compensation at this level reflects both the responsibility and the competitiveness of the position: police chiefs at major departments earn $175,000–$300,000, with the largest metropolitan departments reaching the top of this range and providing the executive benefit packages that senior government positions include (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024). The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) provides professional development, the Law Enforcement Leadership Institute, and the professional network that chiefs and command officers use throughout their administrative careers.

Sheriffs occupy a distinct constitutional position — elected rather than appointed in most states, with broader functional authority that typically encompasses jail operation, civil process, and court security alongside law enforcement patrol — that makes the sheriff’s career pathway different from the appointed chief model. Sheriffs are selected through political election rather than competitive management assessment, requiring the combination of law enforcement professional credential and political viability that the elected position demands. The National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) provides professional development and advocacy resources that sheriffs use to develop their institutional leadership throughout their terms.

Law Enforcement Manager and Supervisor

Below the chief and command level, law enforcement managers and supervisors — lieutenants, captains, and the managers of specialized administrative units including training, internal affairs, records, community affairs, and grant administration — perform the daily organizational management that agency operations require. These positions are the operational backbone of law enforcement administration, where the specific organizational challenges of managing police officers, administering disciplinary processes, maintaining accreditation standards, and delivering the training and professional development that quality law enforcement requires are managed on a daily basis.

First-line supervisors — sergeants who directly manage patrol officer shifts and investigative teams — are the most numerous management positions in law enforcement and the positions where organizational culture is most directly shaped by management quality. Research on police organizational effectiveness consistently finds that sergeant-level supervision is the most consequential organizational level for officer behavior, community relations outcomes, and the implementation of departmental policy in field operations — making first-line supervisory development among the most important administrative investments that agencies can make (Gaines & Kappeler, 2015). Managers who advance from sergeant through lieutenant, captain, and commander levels develop the broad organizational knowledge and management experience that executive positions eventually draw upon.

Grant Manager and Budget Analyst

Grant managers and budget analysts at law enforcement agencies manage the financial administration functions that modern agency operations require — developing and monitoring the operational budgets that fund agency activities, writing and administering federal grants (particularly from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, COPS grants, and other OJP funding sources), tracking expenditures against budget categories, and producing the financial reports that government accounting and grant compliance require. These positions are accessible to practitioners with criminal justice backgrounds who develop financial management and grant administration skills, providing administrative careers that are not on the sworn officer promotional ladder but that are essential to agency function.

Grant managers at law enforcement agencies who manage federal justice grants must understand the specific compliance requirements — allowable costs, reporting timelines, performance measurement, and audit compliance — that federal grant funding imposes on recipient agencies. The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) are the primary federal funders whose grant requirements law enforcement grant managers must master. Compensation for grant managers and budget analysts at law enforcement agencies ranges from $55,000–$85,000 with advancement to finance director and chief administrative officer positions at $85,000–$130,000 at major departments.

Corrections Administration

Corrections Director and Deputy Director

State department of corrections directors — the cabinet-level executives who administer entire state correctional systems, managing populations of thousands to tens of thousands of incarcerated individuals, budgets of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, and workforces of thousands of correctional officers, counselors, administrators, and support staff — are among the most consequential and most challenging senior public executive positions in state government. These positions require the combination of deep correctional operational expertise, the political management skills that cabinet-level government requires, and the organizational leadership competency that directing large complex bureaucracies demands.

Corrections directors are typically appointed by governors from among the most experienced and credentialed correctional administrators in their states — individuals who have built careers progressing from officer through supervisor, facility administrator, and deputy director before reaching the executive level. Graduate education in public administration, criminal justice administration, or organizational management is expected at the director level, and many successful corrections directors hold both operational field experience and advanced academic credentials that provide both professional credibility and organizational management foundation. Director compensation ranges from $100,000–$175,000 depending on state, with larger state systems in high-compensation states reaching the top of this range.

Correctional Facility Administrator

Wardens and superintendents — the chief administrators of individual correctional facilities, responsible for all security, programming, personnel, and administrative functions within their institutions — are the most operationally consequential positions in correctional administration below the department director level. The warden manages the full organizational complexity of what is effectively a self-contained community: the security operations that maintain institutional safety, the programming and treatment functions that serve rehabilitation missions, the food service, medical, and maintenance operations that institutions require, the personnel systems for a workforce that operates around the clock, and the external relationships with courts, law enforcement, community organizations, and the families of incarcerated individuals that institutional operations involve.

The career path to the warden position typically passes through correctional officer, counselor or case manager, supervisor, unit manager, and assistant or associate superintendent roles — a progression that develops the operational knowledge of each institutional function that effective facility administration requires. Wardens at state facilities earn $90,000–$140,000 in most states, with California, New York, and other high-compensation states reaching $130,000–$180,000. Federal Bureau of Prisons wardens earn under federal pay scales that reach $130,000–$200,000 depending on institutional size and security level. The American Correctional Association (ACA) accreditation standards for correctional facilities and the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) professional network provide the quality framework and peer community that correctional facility administrators use throughout their leadership careers.

Reentry and Program Administrator

Program administrators at correctional agencies — managing the educational, vocational, substance abuse treatment, mental health, and reentry preparation programs that corrections agencies operate — provide administrative careers in corrections that draw on the organizational management and program development skills that human services administration requires alongside the institutional knowledge of correctional operations that effective program management within correctional settings demands. These positions are accessible to practitioners with graduate education in public administration, social work, or criminal justice administration without the sworn officer career background that warden-track positions typically require.

Reentry program administrators — at both state correctional agencies and the nonprofit and government partners that provide reentry services to individuals leaving incarceration — manage the housing, employment, treatment, and social service coordination programs that successful reintegration requires. Federal Second Chance Act funding, administered through BJA, has significantly expanded the program administration infrastructure that supports reentry, creating sustained demand for qualified program administrators who combine criminal justice knowledge with grant management and organizational leadership competency. Program administrator positions pay $55,000–$85,000 with advancement to director-level positions at $75,000–$110,000 at state agencies and well-funded nonprofit providers.

Courts and Prosecution Administration

Court Administrator and Chief of Court Operations

Court administrators — the professional managers who handle the operational, budgetary, personnel, and technological functions of court systems — provide the administrative infrastructure without which judicial operations cannot function effectively. At the trial court level, court administrators manage case filing and processing, judge and courtroom scheduling, jury administration, facilities management, human resources, information technology, and the community service functions that courts provide to litigants and the public. At the state appellate and supreme court levels, court administrators manage the operational support for the judicial officers who hear appeals, oversee statewide court improvement initiatives, and maintain the administrative relationships with trial court administrators across the state that unified court administration requires.

The National Association for Court Management (NACM) provides the Certified Court Manager (CCM) and Certified Court Executive (CCE) credentials that document court administration professional competency, alongside conference access and the peer community that court administrators use throughout their careers. Court administrators at major metropolitan trial courts earn $80,000–$130,000; state court administrators at the appellate level earn $100,000–$160,000; and federal court clerks of court — who serve as the chief administrative officers of individual U.S. district courts — earn under federal pay scales that place these positions among the more senior federal civilian positions in each district.

District Attorney Office Administrator

District attorney office administrators — the professional managers who handle the budget, human resources, technology, facilities, and operational functions of prosecution offices — provide the administrative infrastructure that allows assistant district attorneys to focus on their prosecutorial work rather than organizational management. Large urban prosecutor’s offices employ professional administrators who manage dozens to hundreds of non-attorney staff, develop and monitor multi-million-dollar annual budgets, implement the case management systems that prosecution workflow requires, and maintain the organizational relationships with law enforcement, courts, and victim services providers that effective prosecution depends upon.

DA office administrator positions are accessible to public administration graduates with experience in government management, and they provide careers in the prosecution environment without requiring law degrees. Compensation at major urban prosecutor offices ranges from $70,000–$110,000 for operations and finance managers with advancement to chief of staff and chief administrative officer positions at $100,000–$140,000. The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) provides professional development resources that prosecution administrators use alongside their prosecutorial colleagues in developing institutional capacity.

Public Administration in Criminal Justice

City and County Criminal Justice Coordinator

City and county criminal justice coordinators — positions at the municipal and county government level that coordinate policy, planning, and interagency collaboration across the law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and corrections agencies that operate within their jurisdictions — provide public administration careers in criminal justice that sit above individual agency administration and engage with the systemic questions of how the multiple agencies that constitute a local criminal justice system function together. These coordinators convene interagency working groups, develop cross-agency data sharing, implement justice reinvestment strategies, manage grant portfolios that fund cross-agency initiatives, and report to elected officials on justice system outcomes that no single agency controls.

These positions are accessible to public administration graduates with criminal justice knowledge and policy analysis skills, compensating at $65,000–$95,000 at city and county government levels with advancement to criminal justice director and deputy administrator positions at $90,000–$130,000 in major metropolitan governments. The growing investment in local justice reinvestment initiatives — funded through the Council of State Governments Justice Center, Arnold Ventures, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge — has created sustained demand for coordinating administrators who can manage complex interagency reform initiatives from positions of authority without direct operational control.

State Criminal Justice Planning Agency

State criminal justice planning agencies — including state statistical analysis centers (SACs), criminal justice coordinating councils, and the planning divisions within state departments of public safety or corrections — provide the data analysis, policy research, grant administration, and interagency coordination functions that state-level criminal justice administration requires. These agencies compile and analyze criminal justice data for legislative reporting, administer federal justice assistance grants that fund local programs, evaluate the effectiveness of state criminal justice initiatives, and provide the policy analysis that governors, attorneys general, and legislatures use in developing criminal justice policy.

State planning agency positions are accessible to criminal justice graduates with research methods and data analysis skills, compensating at $55,000–$85,000 for analysts with advancement to division director and agency director positions at $85,000–$130,000. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) provide data resources and professional development that state criminal justice planners use throughout their careers. The NCJA’s annual conference is the primary venue where state planning agency professionals share analytical methodologies, policy findings, and administrative approaches across the state-level criminal justice planning community.

Federal Criminal Justice Administration

Federal criminal justice administration encompasses the management functions at DOJ components — including the Bureau of Justice Assistance, National Institute of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and Office for Victims of Crime — that administer federal criminal justice funding, conduct research, and develop the policy guidance that shapes state and local criminal justice practice across the country. These positions are senior federal civilian positions that require both criminal justice substantive knowledge and the public administration competency that managing large federal program offices requires.

Federal criminal justice administrative positions at the GS-13 through SES levels compensate at $103,000–$235,000 depending on classification and seniority, with federal benefits adding substantial total compensation value. The USAJOBS system provides access to federal criminal justice administrative position announcements, and the political appointment processes for assistant attorney general and other senior DOJ leadership positions provide pathways to the most senior federal criminal justice administrative roles for practitioners with the combination of professional credentials and political connections that political appointment requires.

Policy, Research, and Program Administration

Criminal Justice Policy Analyst

Criminal justice policy analysts — at state and local government agencies, legislative staff offices, research organizations, and advocacy groups — analyze existing policies and proposed reforms, evaluate program effectiveness, synthesize research evidence for decision-makers, and develop the policy recommendations that administrators and elected officials use in making criminal justice policy decisions. The position requires the research methods and statistical competency that policy analysis demands alongside the criminal justice substantive knowledge that contextualizes analytical findings within the institutional realities of how the system actually operates (Walker, 2015).

Policy analyst positions at government agencies are accessible to criminal justice graduates with strong research methods backgrounds at the bachelor’s and master’s levels, compensating at $55,000–$85,000 with advancement to senior policy advisor and division director positions at $80,000–$130,000. Graduate education in public policy, public administration, or criminal justice significantly strengthens competitive positioning for policy analyst positions that draw from multiple graduate disciplines alongside criminal justice-specific programs. The Policy Analysis and Management specialty within the American Society of Criminology and the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) provide professional resources that criminal justice policy analysts use throughout their careers.

Program Administrator and Grant Manager

Program administrators and grant managers at criminal justice agencies, nonprofit service providers, and government entities that receive federal criminal justice funding — managing the grant compliance, financial reporting, program evaluation, and stakeholder communication that federally funded criminal justice programs require — provide the administrative infrastructure that translates policy decisions and grant funding into operational programs that affect individuals in the justice system. The federal grant management function is institutionally significant: billions of dollars in federal justice assistance flow annually through state and local agencies and nonprofit providers, each requiring the grant management competency that federal compliance demands.

Program administrator positions are accessible to public administration and criminal justice graduates with organizational management and financial administration skills, compensating at $50,000–$80,000 with advancement to program director and chief program officer positions at $75,000–$120,000 at government agencies and established nonprofit providers. The federal grant management competency that these positions require is developed through experience with specific grant programs — BJA’s Justice Assistance Grant, COPS grants, VOCA victim assistance grants, and the Title II and Title V programs that OJJDP administers — alongside the financial management systems and reporting requirements that each program imposes.

Education and Career Path

Degree Options: AoJ, MPA, MBA, MS-CJ

The educational pathway for administration of justice careers varies more by institutional target and career stage than in most criminal justice specializations. The administration of justice associate’s and bachelor’s degrees that many community colleges and regional universities offer provide entry-level preparation for administrative support positions within criminal justice agencies — records management, grant administration assistance, program coordination — alongside the general criminal justice content that all criminal justice degree programs develop. These degrees are most directly competitive for positions within criminal justice agencies that value institutional knowledge alongside administrative skills.

The Master of Public Administration (MPA) — particularly programs with criminal justice concentrations or offered at universities with strong criminal justice faculties — provides the graduate credential that most directly prepares practitioners for senior administrative positions in government criminal justice agencies. The MPA develops the budget management, personnel administration, policy analysis, and organizational leadership competencies that government executive positions require, alongside the public sector institutional knowledge that distinguishes public administration careers from their private sector equivalents. Programs at institutions including John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, Indiana University (SPEA), and the University of Southern California (PRICE School) provide particularly relevant preparation for criminal justice administration careers.

The Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration provides an alternative graduate pathway that emphasizes the criminal justice substantive depth alongside administrative content — appropriate for practitioners who want both the institutional knowledge and the management competency that leadership in criminal justice-specific positions demands. JD degrees provide the strongest credential for senior positions at prosecutor offices, court administration, and policy advisory roles where legal knowledge alongside management competency is specifically valued. MBA programs with public sector tracks provide financial management and organizational leadership credentials that criminal justice agencies increasingly recruit for senior administrative positions that manage large budgets and complex operational systems.

Career Development Pathways

Career development in administration of justice follows two primary pathways that intersect at the senior level. The operational advancement pathway — beginning with frontline operational positions (officer, correctional officer, probation officer) and advancing through supervisory and management ranks to command and executive positions — is the traditional criminal justice administrative career that develops institutional knowledge, operational credibility, and the practitioner relationships that senior leadership requires. Practitioners on this pathway who add graduate education in administration or public policy — through tuition reimbursement programs that most government agencies provide — develop the formal management credential that competitive senior positions expect alongside the operational foundation that their peers without graduate education provide.

The administrative specialist pathway — entering criminal justice agencies through budget, human resources, information technology, policy, or grant management positions rather than operational roles — develops different competencies and provides different career trajectories. Administrative specialists advance through functional management hierarchies within their specialized areas — budget analyst to finance director, HR specialist to HR director, policy analyst to policy director — before potentially transitioning to deputy director or chief administrative officer positions that require broad organizational management competency across multiple functional areas. These pathways are increasingly recognized as legitimate routes to senior administration positions in agencies that have professionalized their management functions, and they are often more accessible to practitioners with graduate education in public administration than the operational advancement pathway that requires law enforcement or corrections career investment.

Salary and Outlook

Compensation Across Administration of Justice Roles

Administration of justice career compensation reflects the public sector employment context that most positions occupy, with meaningful variation by position level, agency size, and geographic market. Entry-level administrative positions — grant coordinators, policy analysts, program specialists — compensate at $50,000–$70,000 at state and local agencies with advancement through management levels to $80,000–$130,000 for senior managers and directors. Executive positions — police chief, corrections director, court administrator — compensate at $100,000–$300,000 depending on agency size and jurisdiction, with major metropolitan chiefs and state corrections directors at the top of this range.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (2024) reports relevant benchmarks across administration of justice occupational categories: social and community service managers (a category that includes many criminal justice program administrators) at $78,240 median with 9% projected employment growth; first-line supervisors of correctional officers at $78,920 median; and postsecondary administrators at $101,340 median for those in higher education justice administration roles. Court administrators at major metropolitan courts earn $80,000–$160,000 depending on court level and jurisdiction. District attorney office administrators at major urban prosecution offices earn $70,000–$140,000 in senior operational and financial roles. State criminal justice planning agency directors earn $90,000–$140,000 in most states, with federal OJP and BJA positions at GS-14 and GS-15 levels reaching $135,000–$163,000 before locality adjustments.

Employment Outlook and Growth Drivers

The 9% growth projection for social and community service managers reflects the expanding demand for program administrators in criminal justice reform, reentry services, and the behavioral health integration programs that are creating new administrative positions across the justice system. Employment outlook for senior administration positions in law enforcement and corrections is additionally shaped by the retirement wave underway among the Baby Boom generation of police commanders, correctional executives, and court administrators — creating promotional opportunities that smaller cohorts behind them will fill in agencies across every state.

The professionalization of criminal justice administration — with growing expectations for graduate education, certification, and formal management competency at positions that previously required only operational experience — is creating demand for practitioners who invest in administrative credentials alongside their field experience. The expansion of evidence-based practices in policing, corrections, and courts is creating new administrative functions — data analysis units, program evaluation offices, evidence-based practice implementation roles — that did not exist a generation ago and that are generating sustained demand for administrators who combine criminal justice institutional knowledge with the analytical and organizational management competencies that these new functions require. Practitioners who position at this intersection — operational experience plus graduate administrative education plus analytical skills — are competing for the most consequential and most financially rewarding administrative positions that the justice system offers.

Conclusion

Administration of justice careers represent the organizational and management dimension of the criminal justice field — the work of ensuring that the institutions through which justice is administered are managed effectively, led with integrity, and continuously improved in ways that serve both public safety and the constitutional and ethical standards that justice institutions must uphold. The police chief who manages a department of thousands through a use-of-force controversy, the corrections director who implements evidence-based programming across a state prison system, the court administrator who modernizes case processing for a major metropolitan court, and the criminal justice policy analyst who evaluates sentencing reform outcomes are all doing administration of justice work — from different positions, with different institutional authority, but with the shared goal of making the justice system function better.

The practitioners who build the strongest administration of justice careers are those who combine genuine institutional knowledge of how criminal justice operates with the organizational management, financial administration, and policy analysis competencies that leading complex public institutions requires — and who invest in the graduate education and professional development that senior administrative positions increasingly expect. The combination is rarer than either component alone, and the practitioners who develop it are consistently more competitive for the most consequential administrative positions available in criminal justice leadership.

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