CCJ1020 Chapter 7 Flashcards
- According to research, which is not a benefit associated with higher education for police officers?
Crime-fighting ability is enhanced
- With whom do African American women police officers report having difficult relationships?
African American male police officers
- _____ describes the experience of black officers who must deal with the expectation that they will show lenience to members of their own race, while at the same time experiencing overt racism from their police colleagues.
Double marginality
- Officers in the Los Angeles Police Department make an important distinction between two models of officers– _____.
hard chargers and station queens
- The belief that the public in general had little concept of what it means to be a police officer is reflected in which core belief?
No one else understands the nature of police work.
- The term blue curtain describes:
the secrecy and isolation from others in society that is a consequence of the police subculture.
- Recruits often discover that:
the social reality of police work does not mesh with their original career goals.
- Which is not one of the six core beliefs at the heart of the police culture?
Patrol work gives officers the chance to be heroes in the eyes of the public.
- Studies show there to be ____ styles of police work which fit the current behavior patterns of most police officer.
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- The style of policing which suggests that the police should act as community problem solvers is known as:
social agent
- _____ cases are often a source of frustration in futility for police officers, making them reluctant to respond.
domestic violence
- The overload hypothesis suggests that community crime rates may shape officer discretion is an example of a(n) _____ factor.
environmental
- The term ___ has been coined to describe the racial influence over police discretion.
racial profiling
- When do officers usually feel the effects of the stress of their profession?
during the middle years
- which statement is false regarding corruption?
police corruption involves misuse of authority by police officers in a manner designed to produce gain for the law enforcement community and prestige for the department.
- _____ is not one of the four major categories of police corruption.
external corruption
- A system that makes police supervisors responsible for the behavior of the officers in their command is called a(n):
accountability system
- The U.S. Supreme Court deemed the use of deadly force against an unarmed and nondangerous fleeing felon to be an illegal seizure under the fourth amendment in:
Tennessee v. Garner.
- _____ is not a factor identified in the text as related to police shootings.
Social conflict
- Which statement is false regarding minorities in policing?
the first African American was hired as a police officer in 1931.
