CHAPTER 5 Flashcards
They report more crime to police and also demand the police become more effective at solving crime problems.
ALERTNESS TO CRIME THEORY
Holds that crime everywhere is the result of unrestrained migration and over population in urban areas such as ghettos and slums.
ECONOMIC OR MIGRATION THEORY
Holds that along with higher standards of living, victims become more careless of their belonging, and opportunities for committing crime multiply.
OPPORTUNITY THEORY
Holds that when the event occurs when a great number of children are born, as the baby boom grow up, delinquent subcultures develop out of the adoloscent identity crisis.
DEMOGRAPHIC THEORY
Holds that progress comes along with rising expectations, and people at the bottom develop unrealistic expectations while people at the top don’t see themselves rising fast enough.
DEPRIVATION THEORY
Holds that the basic problem is society becoming too complex.
MODERNIZATION THEORY
Suggest that progressive lifestyles and norms result in the disintegration of older norms that once held people together, but in other cases, people can come together and achieve social consensus or social cohension over values.
ANOMIE AND SYNOMIE THEORY
Emphasizes police-initiated activities of the individual officers and the department.
PROACTIVE POLICE WORK
Developing a response to a crime or another problem that is designed to keep a crime from occuring.
PROACTIVE POLICE WORK
It is more on a response to a problem by police when assistance is specifically requested by citizens.
REACTIVE POLICE WORK
Responding to specific problems based on citizen’s request and following up on those problems.
REACTIVE POLICE WORK
It is based on the presumption that the repression of criminal behavior is the more important aspect of police duty and therefore should be given priority.
CRIME CONTROL MODEL
This approach has been rationalized in the past by the assumption that inconvenience or harassment of innocent people can be justified by the fact that police are fighting crime.
CRIME CONTROL MODEL
Is the primary object of policing, poloce policy is that it is far bettwr than 100 guilty men escape justice rather than one innocent person be convicted.
DUE PROCESS MODEL
Also known as Anglo-American Justice.
COMMON LAW SYSTEM
They exist in most english-speaking countries of the world, such as the U.S, England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and former British colonies in Africa.
COMMON LAW SYSTEM
They are distinguished by a strong adversarial system where lawyers interpret and judges are bound by precedent or stare decisis.
COMMON LAW SYSTEM
Are distinctive in the significance the attach to precedent (the importance of previously decided cases).
COMMON LAW SYSTEM
They rely primarily upon oral system of evidence in which the public trial is a main focal point.
COMMON LAW SYSTEM
Also known as Continental justice, Romano-Germanic justice, or Roman law.
CIVIL LAW SYSTEM
It is the largest and most prevalent system of justice in the world.
CIVIL LAW SYSTEM
It is distinguished by a strong inquisitorial process where less rights are granted to the accused, and the written law is taken as gospel and subject to little interpretation.
CIVIL LAW SYSTEM
