Describe how an interactionist would view the future of policing

What will be an ideal response?


Interactionists will continue to look for the nature and meanings of situations where the police are involved with the public and among themselves and attempt to figure out how these have changed or not changed over time. One of the issues we have looked at in this chapter is police professionalism as a model that has evolved into more community-oriented policing.

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A larger percentage of minority youths are confined than their percentage of the youth population is termed

a. VisionQuest b. Disproportionate minority confinement c. Recidivism d. None of the above

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In order to invoke the protection of ______, the community supervision officer must have acted within the scope of their designated authority.

A. absolute immunity B. quasi-immunity C. abstained immunity D. qualified immunity

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Which of the following is not one of the ideas contributed to the criminological literature by labeling theory?

a. Deviant individuals achieve their status by virtue of social definition b. Negative self-images follow from processing by the formal criminal justice system c. Deviance is the consequence of a quality inherent in human activity d. Labeling by society tends to perpetuate crime

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Explain the major problems impeding law enforcement's understanding of terrorism

What will be an ideal response?

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