Explain the three major differences between maintaining order and criminal law enforcement
What will be an ideal response?
1."Do something" calls for discretionary decision making that includes a lot more choices than just arresting someone.
2."Settle problems" also allows a wide range of discretionary decision making. Problems include more than crimes, and "settle" means more than putting the criminal justice process in motion.
3."Right now" means to settle the problem in minutes. Criminal law enforcement takes days—sometimes weeks or even months—stretching from investigation before an arrest and the arrest itself by patrol officers to follow-up investigation by detectives.
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Social trends in modern urban-industrial societies result in changing norms, confusion, and lessened social control over the individual. This condition creates ______.
a. delinquent sub-cultures b. drift c. anomie d. criminal sub-cultures
As an approach to punishment, community corrections suffers from the public image of being:
A. hard on crime. B. soft on crime. C. increasing crime. D. decreasing crime. E. associated with corruption
In ____________________, the Court ruled that one-way CCTV could serve as the equivalent of in court testimony and would not interfere with the defendant's right to confront witnesses
a. Jones v. Kentucky c. Maryland v. Craig b. White v. Illinois d. Kramer v. Kramer
What is the terminology that is used to describe the reasonable grounds to believe the existence of facts warranting certain actions, such as the search or arrest of a person?
a. reasonable suspicion b. reasonableness c. probable cause d. exigent circumstances