CCJ1020 Chapter 5 Flashcards
1
Q
- ____ in early English society requires that every person in a village be responsible for protecting the settlement from thieves.
A
The pledge system
2
Q
- In early England, the chief law enforcement official in a county, forerunner of today’s sheriff, was called a:
A
shire reeve
3
Q
- Sir Robert Peel’s legislation, the ____, established the first organized police force in London.
A
Metropolitan Police Act
4
Q
- _____ created the first formal police department created in the United States in 1838.
A
Boston
5
Q
- Police reformer August Vollmer contributed to police professionalism by:
A
instituting University training for young officers
6
Q
- The Boston police strike in 1919 resulted in:
A
a striking officers were fired and replaced with new recruits.
7
Q
- The ______ was created in 1929 by President Herbert Hoover to study the U.S. criminal Justice system and make recommendations for improvement.
A
Wickersham Commission
8
Q
- Police departments began to embrace new forms of policing the stressed cooperation with the community and problem solving; this is referred to as the ____ model.
A
community policing
9
Q
- The community policing model began in the:
A
1990s
10
Q
- Which is not one of the four broad categories that law enforcement agencies of today are organized into?
A
Metropolitan
11
Q
- The _____ is an investigation agency with jurisdiction over all law enforcement matters in which the Unite States is an interested party.
A
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
12
Q
- The head of the U.S. Department of Justice is the:
A
U.S. Attorney General
13
Q
- The ____ is the oldest federal law enforcement agency.
A
U.S. Marshals
14
Q
- The role of _____ law enforcement enveloped from that of the early English shire reeve, whose primary duty was to assist the royal judges in trying prisoners and enforcing sentences.
A
county
15
Q
- Reasons for the growth in private policing include all of the following except:
A
private police are better trained.
16
Q
- _____ is used to describe the use of computer software to conduct analysis of behavioral patterns in an effort to link open cases to know perpetrators.
A
Data mining
17
Q
- AFIS is a(n):
A
computerized fingerprint system.
18
Q
- _____ is/are an example of soft technology that law enforcement uses.
A
sex offender registration
19
Q
- _____ enable(s) the police to target and direct resources to geographic hot spots of predatory crime.
A
crime mapping
20
Q
- Which was the first major technological breakthrough in early policing?
A
telegraph communication
