1st Exam Policing and Systems

Question 1

Social Control
Ways in which people are regulated to maintain order

Answer 1

2 ways
- Informal (family, peers, school) Examples: don’t talk to strangers, parents teaching not to cuss, manners, do your chores
- Formal (law/criminal justice system) Examples : laws, punishments, jail time, murder

Question 2

Law and Criminalization
Process where criminal law is selectively applied to social behavior

Answer 2

Process
-Enacting law
-Surveillance/policing
-Punishments
-Debate in society

Question 3

American policing is a product of its English , Policing coming from England

Answer 3

-Limited police authority
-Local control of law enforcement agencies (like CHarleston PD, The citadel PD)
- Decentralized and fragmented system of law enforcement

Question 4

The study of police history can

Answer 4

• Dramatize the fact of change
• Put current problems in perspective
• Help us understand what reforms have worked
• Alert us to unintended consequences of reforms

Question 5

First 24 hour police department in the US which modeled what Peel and the London Metro PD(1829) envisioned ?

Answer 5

NYPD in 1845

Question 6

Police patrols in the 1800s

Answer 6

Cant talk to other people, lack of communications, inefficient (other officers patrolled on foot and were spread very thin)

Question 7

Kansas Police Patrol Experiment 1972-1973 IMPORTANT

Answer 7

-No effect on citizens feeling safety
-No effect feeling of safely or crime
-No effect on attitude towards police
-No effect on the crime rate
-Crime that occurs indoor would not be affected by patrol

Question 8

Phantom affect

Answer 8

people believe that there are more cops , that there’s always cops

Question 9

Foot Patrol 1978-1979

Answer 9

Reduce fear of crime and improve attitude towards police

Question 10

Disturbances mean anything
Domestic Disturbances-

Answer 10

Arrest
Remediation- instead of arrest they deal on something
Separation
Referral
No action at all

Question 11

Domestic Violence

Answer 11

cops have to arrest

Question 12

Reasons for “unfounding” crime

Answer 12

LEGITIMATE REASONS
Lack of evidence
No law broken or crime actually committed like a burglary
- ILLEGITIMATE REASONS
- moral judgment against victim
- to lower crime rate

Question 13

A crime is “cleared” when:

Answer 13

Offender is identified or
Have sufficient evidence to charge someone
Take someone to custody due to evidence
Under exceptional circumstances
CLEARANCE RATE

Question 14

Problems with using clearance rate as measure of police performance

Answer 14

Based only on reported crimes
Same criteria are not used by all departments
Data can be easily manipulated
Is it not audited

Question 15

Problems with undercover work

Answer 15

Deliberate deception by police
Socialization with known criminals
Less supervision

Question 16

T/F ABOUT ADDING 1000 POLICE

Answer 16

FALSE

Question 17

T/F AMERICAN POLICE OF 19TH CENTURY - ENJOY HIGH LEVELS OF CITIZENS (THEY DID NOT ENJOY THE MOCKING FROM THE CITIZENS)

Answer 17

FALSE (THEY DID NOT ENJOY THE MOCKING FROM THE CITIZENS)

Question 18

T/F ABOUT ADDING 1000 POLICE

Answer 18

FALSE

Question 19

WHOS THE FATHER OF PROBLEM OF POLICING

Answer 19

HERMAN GOLDSTIEN

Question 20

T/F DEPARTMENTS

Answer 20

FALSE

Question 21

T/F AGENICES

Question 22

T/F THE EARLY 20S CENTRUY OF GOLD POLICING

Answer 22

FALSE

Question 23

T/F LAW ENFORCEMENT DECENTRALIZED

Answer 23

FALSE

Question 24

T/F THERE IS A CLEAR RELATION IN THE RATIO OF POLICING

Answer 24

FALSE

Question 25

T/F HERBERT HOOVER(PRESIDENT) IS IMPORTANT

Answer 25

FALSE

Question 26

T/F THE MAJORITY OF CALLS OF SERVICES ARE CALLS FOR COPS

Answer 26

THE MAJORITY OF CALLS OF SERVICES ARE CALLS FOR COPS