Exam 1 Flashcards
An organization characterized by many departments and divisions operating through a complicated structure system of rules and regulations.
Bureaucracy
An organization characterized by many departments and divisions operating through a complicated structure system of rules and regulations.
Chain of Command
A unit responsible for investigating citizen complaints against officers and internally generated complaints among police department members.
Internal affairs unit
A company or agency that does not have competitors.
Monopoly
A focus on certain responsibilities in order to develop expertise and efficiency in those tasks.
Specialization
A public agency that serves primarily low-income clients and whose workers have substantial discretion in processing those clients.
Street-level bureaucracy
A police unit that handles high-risk criminal situations, such as hostage situations and the execution of certain arrests and search warrants.
Tactical enforcement unit
Making someone decide not to do something.
Deterrence
The role the police play in determining who comes into the criminal justice system and who stays out.
Gate keepers
Making it impossible for people to commit crimes.
Incapacitation
Tasks performed by the police that involve conducting investigations and making arrests.
Law enforcement
Policing style in which enforcing the law is the top priority.
Legalistic style of policing
Activities of the police that involve keeping the peace without resorting to citations or arrests.
Order Maintenance
Policing style that maintains citizen satisfaction is the top priority.
Service-oriented style of policing
Policing style that focuses on order maintenance.
Watchman style of policing
What are the five principles of police agencies of bureaucracy?
- Have division of labor.
- Have hierarchy of authority
- Follow rules critical to its functioning
- Impersonal relationships
- Selection and promotion based on competence
What are some drawbacks of police agencies based on bureaucracy
- lack of flexibility
- persistence to change
- inefficiency
- insensitivity to the needs of workers
what defines the police acting/fashioned after the military?
Qasi-Military
How are the police like the military?
training, patrol, uniform, weapons and some officers come from the military
How are police agencies like monopolies?
- does not have competitors
- Has jurisdiction over a community
- Citizens can demonstrate dissatisfaction with police.
- Police still accountable to citizens through the political process.
