Identify the situational prevention strategy of target hardening

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: At the individual level, situational prevention especially focuses on burglary and motor vehicle theft and takes the form of target hardening: efforts to make residences and businesses more difficult to burglarize, and motor vehicles less vulnerable to theft of the vehicle and/or of its contents. These efforts include stronger locks, burglar alarms, and other home security measures.

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The Supreme Court has NOT allowed the introduction of evidence taken in violation of the Fourth Amendment, where police officers acted in good faith reliance on

A. Their sober and exacting judgment B. A municipal ordinance C. The warrant of a neutral and detached magistrate D. A state statute

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To be fully accepted, effective, and appropriately rewarded for their efforts, all police officers should possess and demonstrate the qualities and competencies inherent in ethical leadershi

a. True b. False

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1) Criminal intelligence can be misused, if not regulated and carried out properly. 2) Covert information collection is the most common and includes a process known as intelligence gathering. 3) Event flow analysis is the most commonly used method of investigating drug kingpins. 4) The primary purpose of the RISS projects is to provide the means to share criminal intelligence among member agencies. 5) To demonstrate a chain of events or activities over a period, a technique known as flowcharting is used.

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The Adam Walsh Act requires that juvenile sex offenders aged 14 and up be automatically ______.

a. excluded from registering as sex offenders because they lack adults’ moral capacity b. registered as sex offenders for life c. registered as sex offenders for a short period d. protected from the public knowing about their conviction

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