Law Enforcement Flashcards
What are the five models
- ) Anglo Peelian
- ) Continental
- ) Developing Countries
- ) Authoritarian
- ) Asian
Anglo Peelian model
US and England
Citizen Focused
Service and Welfare
Community= Crime Control
Continental Model
France, Germany, and Italy Legalistic Approach law based or code based less concern with pleasing the public more militaristic in dealing with citizens
Developing Countries model
Somalia Afghanistan Few resources poorly trained poorly paid prone to corruption Run by Gov?
Authoritarian model
Saudi Arabia, China, and Zimbabwe
Gov and military force
Repression, Brutality and torture
Based on Sacred law
Asian
Japan
Cultural Norms= Social Order
Less emphasis on individual rights
Centralized, Semi-centralized, and decentralized countries
Centralized: France, China, Saudi Arabia, and Japan
Decentralized: US, England, and Germany
Functions of Police
Deviance Control and Civil Order Control
Deviance Control
Task of enforcing community values and laws
-protect public from lawbreakers
-discourage alarming or threatening behavior
-Conservative in nature
~protect community from non-conformist
Civil Order Control
-Responds, supervise, or control two or more citizens
-To protect against the public seeing the police as the “Bad guy”
~Many nations have to have a separate branch to perform this function
- France, Germany, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia
- US and England police do BOTH
England
The MET
- London Metropolitan Police Act
- 1829 Sir Robert Peel
Cautions
- England
- Given to adults aged 18 years or older
- minor crimes
- You have to admit an offense and agree
- NOT a criminal conviction, but used as evidence of bad character if you go to court for another crime
- Stern Warning
Conditional Cautions
Must follow a set of rules or could be charged with a crime
-going to treatment for Drug Abuse
Cautions under 18 years old
Reprimands or Warnings
- give reprimand for first offense
- will give warning for 2nd offense
Penalty notices for disorder
-given for offenses like: shoplifting, possessing cannabis. being Drunk and Disorderly in public
-Will be asked to sign penalty notice ticket
~if you pay penalty then you wont get a criminal conviction
~You can ask for a trial if you disagree with penalty
Who can give police cautions, warnings and penalty notices?
The police (MET) or the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) -given for minor offenses
France
-Police Nationale (PN) ~Paris and other urban areas ~Operates with Ministry of Interior -Gendarmerie (GN) ~Small town and rural areas ~Operates with Ministry of Defense -Both conduct Deviance control just in different areas
Civil order control in France
PN and GN have specialized forces for this
- PN= Republican Security Companies
- GN= Gendarmerie mobile
Germany Police
Schop: 1st to arrive on the scence, handles general aspects of law enforcement and simple investigation
Kripo: plain clothes, serious crime investigation
Bepo: Officers in training, they are used for civil order control
BGS (Federal Border Police):Border Patrol, sea patrol, and railroad security
-GSG 9= terrorist Incidents
China police forces
Public Security Force- basic police service
Militia groups: Monitor broader regions
People’s liberation Army (PLA): military wing of communist party
China’s 5 policing components
- ) Public Security Police
- ) State security Police
- ) Prison Police
- ) Judicial Procuratorates Police
- ) Judicial People’s Court
China Deviance or Civil order?
Civil Order
- mostly public security
- Chinese People’s Army
Japan Police
Koban: Large cities located every few blocks
Chuzaisho: The rural equvialent of Koban
-visits each household twice per year
-goal is to have the officer be integrated into the community
Civil order control in Japan
Kidotai
- young officers, military model
- 3 years of service then they return to street police work
