What types of factors might result in an unfavorable view of the police by citizens?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Answers will vary. Students should mention strained racial relations. Other factors could include past experience, having been arrested or falsely accused of a crime, the behavior of individual police officers, or the amount of unsolved crime in the community.
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What was the central finding of Martinson’s 1974 report on various treatment efforts?
a. An eye for an eye approach is best. b. Nothing works. c. Rehabilitation comes before punishment. d. Treatment is cruel and unusual punishment.
What factor is not a reason why the police solve so “few” crimes?
a. the structure of most crimes b. the nature of the police response (reactive) c. police powers limited by law d. offenders get better committing crimes without being detected
The procedure by which an administrative record is made of the arrest is called a(n) ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
__________ is when informed consent of subjects is not sought and researchers pretend to be part of the study group.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).