Data packet disorder is inevitable in discrete-time networked control systems, which however has been ignored in most literature to date. This work investigates the cause and the negative effects of data packet disorder in discrete-time networked control systems, and a compensation scheme is proposed to deal with these negative effects. This analysis shows that most existing works in the related areas have assumed unrealistic characteristics of the communication network and thus further improvements within this new framework are necessary. For this purpose the closed-loop system with the use of the proposed compensation scheme is mathematically modeled as a Markov jump systems, and stochastic stability and stabilization results are then obtained. Numerical examples illustrate the negative effects caused by data packet disorder and also the effectiveness of the proposed approach.