Policing Exam 3

Chapters 8-10

order maintenace

The policing of minor fights and disturbances, domestic incidents, public nuisances.

crime prophylactic model

Holds that police intervention can defuse potentially violent situations and prevent them from escalating into criminal violence.

police knowledge model

Holds that noncrime calls give officers a broader exposure to the community, with the result they have more knowledge that will help them solve crimes.

social work model

Holds that the latent coercive power of the police can help to steer potential lawbreakers into law-abiding behavior.

community cooperation model

Holds that effective responses to non-crime calls can help the police establish greater credibility with the public.

counterpunching

Occurs when someone calls the police about another person to divert attention from his or her own behavior.

domestic disturbance

A dispute between two people who are in an intimate relationship, married or not married, requiring a police response in order to restore order and, if necessary, to make an arrest.

intimate partner violence

A disturbance between two or more people in an intimate relationship that has escalated to the level of actual or threatened violence.

Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment

A study conducted from 1981 to 1982 to determine the relative deterrent effect of arrest, mediation, and separation in misdemeanor domestic violence incidents; it found that arrests produced lower rates of repeat violence than separation or mediation.

Lautenberg Amendment

A federal law passed in 1996 prohibiting anyone with a conviction for domestic violence from owning a firearm.

streetwalkers

One who represents the lower end of the social and economic scale of prostitution by soliciting on the streets, thus being highly visible to both the police and the general public.

bar girls

A prostitute who works out of bars or other entertainment establishments.

skeezers

A woman who trades sex for crack cocaine.

brothel prostitutes

Prostitutes who work for legal brothels, illegal message parlors, and escort services.

call girls

Sex workers who represent the upper end of the economic scale of prostitution.

sex trafficking

The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act that is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or when the person who is forced to perform the commercial sex act is under 18 years old.

psychiatric first aid

mercy booking

Arresting a mentally ill person for a minor offense so that he or she will be booked into the county jail and receive needed mental health care.

what factors impact a driver’s perception of the stop’s legitimacy?

factors related to the officers conduct and the perceived justification for the stop

5 alternative responses available to domestic disturbance?

-arrest

-mediation

-separating the parties

-referral to a social service agency

-no action at all

Bruno v. Codd (1978)

Scott v. Hart (1979)

what was the primary goal of the Minneapolis DV Experiment (1981-1982)?

sought to determine the relative deterrent effect of arrest, mediation, and separation is misdemeanor DV incidents

specific findings in Minneapolis DV experiment

arresting the perpetrator significantly reduced the rate of repeat violence

why policing prostitution is difficult?

prostitution is a common problem in many communities across the country, there are 5 diff types of prostitution, streetwalkers, bar girls, skeezers, brothel prostitutions, and call girls

current police response to homelessness as mainly “reactive”

homeless people represent another order maintance problem for police, some observers believe there are more mentally ill people amongst homeless

D.A.R.E Program

The most popular demand reduction strategy is the drug education program known as Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

proactive crime strategies

Anticrime strategies initiated by the police, as opposed to a citizen request for service.

reactive crime strategies

Anticrime strategies used by police when responding to a civilian’s request for service.

unfounding a crime

A police officer does not complete an official crime report when a citizen reports a crime.

preliminary investigation

The first stage of investigating a crime, consisting of five steps: reacting identifying and arresting any suspects, providing aid to any victims in need of medical attention, securing the crime scene to prevent loss of evidence, collecting all relevant physical evidence, and preparing a preliminary report.

nominal caseload

All cases assigned to an officer.

workable caseload

Includes those cases that have sufficient leads and therefore are worth attempting to solve.

actual caseload

clearance rate

legally arrested

behaviorally arrested

subjectively arrested

officially arrested

case solvability factors

criminalistics

forensic index

convicted offender index

hammered informants

mercenary informants

vengeful informants

police buffs

supply reduction strategy

demand reduction strategy

G.R.E.A.T.

Kansas City Gun Experiment

hate crimes

terrorism

domestic terrorism,

foreign terrorism

broken windows

social disorder

physical disorder

community policing

coproducers of crime control

community partnerships

consultation

mobilization

problem solving

problem-oriented policing

SARA

scanning

analysis

response

assessment

parallel partnerships

collaborative partnerships

focused deterrence

Boston Gun Project