The role the police play in determining who comes into the criminal justice system and who stays out.
What is gate keepers?
SQF is an acronym for what law enforcement practice?
Activities of the police that involve keeping the peace without resorting to citations or arrests.
What is order maintenance?
Policing style that focuses on order maintenance.
What is watchman style of policing?
The five most common motivations for police officers to stay on the job.
(in no particular order):
1. Job security
2. Job benefits
3. Early retirement
4. Opportunities for job advancement
5. Opportunity to help people in the community
True or False: Law enforcement makes up a relatively small portion of what the police do.
True
Crime is impacted by a variety of factors that police cannot control. List some of these factors.
(in no particular order):
1. Rate of employment
2. Amount of poverty
3. Nature of human interactions
4. Availability of proper role models for children
5. Psychological makeup of people
6. Biological makeup of people
7. Population demographics
8. Weather
9. Policies/practices of other components of the criminal justice system
Duties performed by police such as assisting stranded motorists and attending to other people in need.
What is service?
Efforts to create a group of qualified applicants to hire from and sets the stage for the selection of officers.
What is recruitment?
True or False: Motivations for recruits to become police officers are different across race and gender.
False- motivations remain stable regardless of race and gender.
List Cincinnati, Ohio patrol officer activities in order from the most time spent to the least time spent.
1. (Most time spent)- Patrol
2. Other noncrime activities
3. Handling noncrime calls for service
4. (Least time spent)- Crime matters
Concept that refers to making it impossible for people to commit crime.
What is incapacitation?
Tasks performed by the police that involve conducting investigations and making arrests.
What is law enforcement?
Concept that refers to recruiting candidates with different experiences, backgrounds, have different ideas, understandings, and skills to the job in a variety of forms including race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, and skills and experiences.
What is diversity?
True or False: Motivations for police officers to remain on the job vary by race and gender.
False- Motivations to remain a police officer are stable regardless of race and gender
List Wilmington, Delaware patrol officer activities in order from the most time spent to the least time spent.
1. (Most time spent)- Patrol
2. Criminal Matters
3. Service and order maintenance activities
4. Administrative matters
5. Traffic
6. (Least time spent)- Other activities
Making someone decide not to do something.
What is deterrence?
Policing style in which enforcing the law is the top priority.
What is legalistic style of policing?
What is the Police Executive Research Forum?
The most successful recruitment efforts to solicit applicants is by emphasizing what aspects of the policing job?
(in no particular order):
1. The challenge of the job
2. The job as a long-term career
A concept described as the police seeking to control people's behavior. An example of this concept in action is police stopping, questioning, and frisking (SQF) citizens.
What is crime control?
The three qualities of deterrence.
What are certainty, swift (i.e., celerity), and meaningful (i.e., severity)
Bonus fact: This is the same concept that Cesare Beccaria discussed in his deterrence theory.
Policing style that maintains citizen satisfaction is the top priority.
What is service-oriented style of policing?
The three most common reasons why academy recruits became police officers.
(in no particular order):
1. Opportunity to help others
2. Job benefits (health insurance, retirement benefits)
3. Job security
These are the three most commonly used recruitment methods in police agencies.
(in no particular order):
1. Newspaper advertisements
2. Internet advertisements
3. Personal contacts and referrals