Ch 5: Policing: Contemporary Issues and Challenges
Ch6: Police and Law
100
The goal of the criminal justice system that is based around deterrence and proactive action.
What is preventing crime?
100
The two classes of affirmative defenses
What is excuse and justification?
100
The English system which used bands of families called "Tithings" to enforce the law
What is the Frankpledge system?
100
A visual training tool that displays proportional responses police may use in reaction to increasing aggressive behavior on the part of a subject.
What is the use of force continuum?
100
A document, signed by a judge, that grants police the authority to search or seize specific people or places. Based on probable cause.
What is a warrant?
200
Goal of criminal justice concerned with justice and equality
What is doing justice?
200
Auto pioneer John DeLorean was successful in using this excuse defense when a DEA informant pressured him to bankroll a smuggling operation.
What is entrapment?
200
The general law enforcement authority in America. Most police officers work in these types of agencies.
What are municipal police agencies?
200
The comprehensive resource on police shootings in America.
What is "there isn't one"
200
A type of search performed after taking a person into custody. Done for dual rationale of officer safety and to prevent the destruction of evidence.
What is search incident to arrest?
300
The model of the criminal justice system that ranks crimes by seriousness and prevelance
What is the criminal justice wedding cake?
300
Laws defining how the criminal justice system must treat individuals. Defines rights of the accused and obligations of the government.
What is procedural criminal law?
300
The era of policing known for brutality, corruption, and ineptness. Policing was a position for the well-connected and the loyal.
What is the Political Era of policing?
300
The former contractor turned whistleblower (or leaker) who outed the NSA's metadata gathering operation PRISM?
Who is Edward Snowden?
300
The Supreme Court case that applied the exclusionary rule to the states?
What is Mapp v. Ohio
400
The two main methods used to measure crime in the United States.
What is the NCVS and the UCR?
400
The four sources of criminal law
What are the constitution, statutes, case law, and administrative rules?
400
The policing approach which emphasizes solving issues with public order that may evolve into crime. Based on Broken Windows Theory.
What is problem-oriented policing?
400
Camden Metro Police's utilization of shot-spotters, security cameras, and other equipment is an example of this technology.
What is surveillance technology?
400
The exception to Miranda that allows police to not advise an arrestee of their rights if some imminent danger is present.
What is the public safety exception?
500
Profitable crimes often unseen by the public which one commits using opportunities their job provides
What is occupational crime?
500
A crime punishable by no more than one year in jail
What is a misdemeanor?
500
These entities are characterized by a division of labor, hierarchical control structure, and clear rules to guide organizational activities. Promotes efficiency in organizations.
What is a Bureaucracy?
500
The film the profiled real life public defenders in Georgia
What is Gideon's Army?
500
The legal metaphor used to describe evidence that must be excluded because some illegal action led to it