________________________ is defined as any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity or national origin rather than on the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being or having been engaged in criminal activity.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Racial profiling

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Engaging in sex with non-human animals is called

a. fetishism b. frotteurism c. zoophilia d. asphyxiophilia

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In "Broken Windows" and Police Discretion, Wilson and Kelling note that the community policing model _____ the use of police discretion among officers at all levels of the organization

a. reduces and limits c. expands and encourages b. contracts and discourages d. both a and b are correct

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An organization legally authorized to represent police officers in collective bargaining with the employer is called

A. a police union. B. the brotherhood. C. an agent. D. a civil service administration.

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Who proposed two “ideal type” models undergirding the operation of the criminal justice system?

a. Bentham b. Beccaria c. Packer d. Garofalo

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