Chapter 1

Question 1

Its one of the unavoidable realities of police work?

Answer 1

Discretionary decision making

Question 2

So we are discussing the idea that a critical factor in police competence is ____ judgment. Police ____ is driven by the character of individual officers.

Answer 2

ethical; discretion

Question 3

A ____ is the effort to see clearly, to see the reality of situations.

Answer 3

philosophic perspective

Question 4

It is an occupation that involves the practioner in academic experience of substantial sophistication.

Answer 4

standard definition of a profession cited by sociologists

Question 5

Professional solve problems in a ____ way.

Answer 5

collegial

Question 6

The police officer who becomes involved in breaking procedural law in order to enforce substantive law is a hero, not only in public and in the imaginary world of entertainment, but in some cirlces on some occasions in the real world of policing.

Answer 6

Noble Cause Corruption

Question 7

Obedience to God made it good, the end.

Answer 7

Ethical Formalism

Question 8

German philosopher Immanuel Kant fathered the idea “Categorical Imperative. Its a nonreligious version of the New Testaments’s “Golen Rule” (Jesus said, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”). Kant’s ethic is what philosophers call a ____ perspective, a term that indicates that a person has a duty to be ____.

Answer 8

deontological; reasonable.

Question 9

Kant maintains that the individual can only be held accountable for that over which he or she has immediate ____, and in our conduct the only thig we absolutely ____ is our ____.

Answer 9

control; control; intention