List and describe the three reasons for the changes that have occurred, and those that are taking place now, in community policing

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will describe each of the three points. First is citizen disenchantment with police services.
Minority citizens in inner cities continue to be frustrated by police who whisk in and out of their
neighborhoods with little sensitivity to community norms and values. Second concerns social -science research conducted in the 1970s that indicated preventive patrol, rapid response to calls for service, and investigative work was uniformly discouraging. Third, patrol officers have been frustrated with their traditional roles, and they have begun to demand improved methods of interacting with citizens.

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An African American judge who has had many negative experiences with other races gives harsher punishments to races other than African Americans who commit the same crime

This type of judicial decision making is characteristic of which model of thought? a. Realist b. Formalist c. Impartial justice d. Stereotyping

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The legal definition of prostitution involves four primary social concerns: (1) cash, (2) promiscuity, (3) relationship to a sexual partner, and (4) ____________

a. overtly b. subtlety c. recklessly d. dangerously

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Properly selected control groups help criminology researchers eliminate threats to __________

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

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The main danger in the present system of nontrial dispositions in the form of plea bargains is that it ____

a. is excessively punitive b. takes excessive time and resources c. is typically very inflexible d. is informal and invisible

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