This European police agency served as the model for modern US policing
What is the London Metropolitan Police Service?
100
This is defined as a criminal act
What is actus reus
100
This report, which is based on reported crime, is used by government officials to determine crime trends
What is the Uniform Crime Report?
100
Scholars posit that up to 90% of police time is spent providing this function
What are social services?
100
Designed to handle problems and situations requiring coordinated efforts
What is aggressive or directed patrol?
200
This city established the first organized police department in the USA
What is Boston?
200
This is another word for criminal intent
What is mens rea?
200
This survey is used by government officials to determine crime trends in their community
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey?
200
This pre-shift meeting provides real-time information to police officers, and is an opportunity for supervisors to inspect their subordinates.
What is a "roll call briefing"?
200
This refers to specific locations with high crime rates
What are "hot spots"?
300
This is regarded as the predecessor of modern police agencies in the southeastern United States.
What are slave patrols?
300
The body of law that defines crimes and assigns punishments for them.
What is (substantive) criminal law?
300
This theory sees people as free agents with free will: people commit crimes because they want to.
What is classical criminology?
300
In most police services, the majority of police are assigned to this function
What is patrol, field services, or field operations?
300
This technique targets specific traffic problem or high-crash areas.
What is selective enforcement?
400
These citizen groups maintained order in many part of the United States prior to formalized agencies.
What are vigilantes?
400
A major crime—for example, murder, arson; the penalty is usually death or imprisonment for more than one year in a state prison or penitentiary.
What is a felony?
400
This theory sees criminals as “victims of society” and of their own biological, sociological, cultural, and physical environments
What is positivist theory?
400
This is the freedom of an agency or individual officer to make choices as to whether to act;freedom to act or judge on one’s own
What is discretion?
400
These unpaid police personnel have equivalent authority as police officers, yet provide manpower in special situations
What are reserve or auxiliary police officers?
500
This is the oldest federal law enforcement agency in the United States.
What is the US Marshal's Service?
500
A minor offense—for example, breaking a municipal ordinance, where the penalty is typically a fine or a short imprisonment, usually less than one year, in a local jail
What is a misdemeanor?
500
This crime against the person requires that police make an arrest, regardless of the victim's wishes
What is domestic violence-assault & battery?
500
Any group demonstrating specific patterns of behavior that distinguish it from others within a society
What is "organizational culture"?
500
This is an at-the-scene identification, made within a reasonable time after a crime has been committed.