Briefly describe the functionalist perspective of police in special populations
What will be an ideal response?
From a functionalist perspective, negative treatment of particular groups and individuals belonging to those groups would be dysfunctional behavior on the part of the police, particularly in a society where everyone is supposed to be treated equally. Functionalists would point to laws and policies that protect the rights of the disadvantaged against discriminatory treatment as expressing what would be expected and functional for a democratic society.
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a. Collective b. Indeterminate c. Massive d. Selective
The state Attorney Generals generally have:
A) broad authority. B) narrow authority. C) strict authority based on case law. D) strict authority based on statutory law.
Rather than the alternative perspectives of positivism and constructivism researchers developed the principle of
A) Minimism B) Maximism C) Pragmatism D) None of the above
According to Wilson, the service style if most often found in:
A) Cities with heterogeneous populations and reform oriented professional government. B) Rural and agricultural areas. C) Homogenous suburban communities. D) Economically declining cities with traditional political machines.