CHAPTER 1,2, and 3 Flashcards
Comparative
it refers to a specific methodology of analyzing similarities and contrasts amongst selected entities and defined variables.
Comparison
is a public force empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force
Police
refers to the actions taken by a police agency to fulfill a legal mandate of which the end result is maintenance of order and keeping the peace.
Policing
A combination of related elements that is functioning as a whole in order to achieve a single goal or objective.
System
Process of outlining the similarities and differences of one police system to another in order to discover insights in the field of international.
Comparative System in Policing
researcher visits another country.
Safari Method
researcher communicates with foreign researcher.
Collaborative Method
Policemen are considered servants of the higher authority and people have little or no share of all their duties, nor any direct connection with them.
Continental Theory
Policemen are considered servants of the community who depend for the effectiveness of their functions upon the express wishes of the people.
Home Rule Theory
Punishment is the role instrument of crime control-throwing more people to jail rather than keeping them out of jail.
Old Concept
The yardstick of efficiency of the police is the absence of crime. Its objective is the welfare of the people and the society.
New Concept
has been a prime goal of policing activities. However, this goal has become increasingly complex.
Enforcing laws
- The police are often called to intervene in non-criminal conduct such as those that which occurs at public events, in social relations, and in traffic control to maintain law and order. They often help people solve problems that the latter cannot cope alone.
Preserving the Peace
it attempts to eliminate potentially dangerous situation.
Preventing Crime
- It is often undertaken by the police agency in working with juveniles, cooperating with probation and parole administration and educating the public.
Preventing Crime
Some as the single most important goal of policing activities
Protecting Rights and Liberties
- They are also expected to do so as specified by the Bill of Rights.
Protecting Rights and Liberties
- Many new demands are made including giving information, intervening in domestic disputes, rendering emergency or recue services, controlling traffic and crowds, etc.
Providing Other Services
- Police officers and their agencies may team-up with citizens, businesses, private policing enterprises, and the other law enforcement agencies to achieve the objectives of policing activities.
Partnership with the Community
- It focuses on determining the underlying causes of problems, including crime, and identifying solutions to problems identified.
Problem-Solving Approach to Crime
- It is defined as an organizational-wide strategy aimed at solving persistent community problems, and incidents.
Problem-Solving Approach to Crime
- Those functions that occur “behind the scenes”, away from the front line of police officers in the field.
Administrative Service
- These services include clerical and technical support to manage the information needed and generated by those in field services.
Administrative Service