ch2 Flashcards
blue laws
when religious groups successfully lobbied to make custom part of the criminal law
combination laws
prohibited workers from meeting, organizing, and striking against their their masters to improve working conditions.
constable
among first law enforcement officers in american colonies.
crime prevention unit
manned by staff rather than line officers
economic rationale
development and maintenance of an effective criminal justice system is an expensive proposition, and this position argued that frontier towns should not bear the expense, when vigilantism did the job efficiently for free.
enclosure acts
lands that were used by entire communities, called the commons, were consolidated and privatized with a series of acts of parliament.
metropolitan police act of 1829
abolished existing efforts and, in their place, establishing a police office, administered by justices in charge of planning.
new left
a loose coalition of groups demanding a variety of social, economic and political changes, underneath the umbrella phrase, social justice.
police community relations
pcr programs represented sincere efforts to reach out and address a host of community concerns by establishing better relations with the community.
right of revolution
the U.S. comes from a tradition of violent revolution, and early framers of the constitution argued that periodic revolt might be necessary to prevent government tyranny.
self preservation
this idea justifies vigilantism by arguing that citizens must be willing to kill or be killed when the official system fails to provide adequate protection
volstead act of 1919
made prohibition the law of the land
