Chapter 9 Flashcards
What is unfounding a crime?
Police officers not completing a report
Reasons why officer unfounded a crime?
Citizens do not understand criminal law, not enough evidence, abuse their discretion
Proactive
Initiated by police
Reactive
A response by police from citizens reports
General crime control
Routine Patrol
Specific crime control
Particular crimes, specific places, specific offenders, specific victims
Who are gatekeepers of criminal justice system?
Citizens
Preliminary investigation
Identifying and arresting suspects, providing aid to victims, securing the crime scene, collecting physical evidence, preparing preliminary report
Nominal caseload
All cases assigned to officer
Workable caseload
Have sufficient leads therefore worth attempting to solve
Actual caseload
Actually worked by detectives
Measure of succes
Clearance rate
Hammered informants
Informants due to stress after their arrest
Mercenary informants
Motivated by money
Vengeful informants
Informants who want revenge on someone
Police buffs
Supportive of police and provided them with info
Supply reduction
Bust and buy, trading up low level for high level, long term undercover, drug crackdown
Demand reduction
Reduce use the demand for drugs on part of the potential users
Kansas City Gun Experiment
Justified stops to search for weapons
Hate crime
(Bias motivated), criminal offense against a person or property motivated by offender bias of race, religion, disability, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation.
Terrorism
The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government with political objectives
