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15 Cards in this Set
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slave patrols |
legal mechanism for enforcing slave codes, scott v. sanford- supreme court upheld view of slaves as property |
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sheriff |
from the term "shir reeve." maintained law and order in the tithings. basic source of rural crime control in the us. posse comitatus |
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constable |
traced back to anglo saxon times. unspecialized (collecting taxes, supervising highways, serving as magistrate). America- were given control over nightwatch. unpaid, little prestiege or popularity |
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shire reeve |
sheriff. shire means "county" and reeve means "agent of the king" |
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justice of the peace |
appeared as early as 1195. presided over criminal trials, issued warrants for arrest. american jp's have limited jurisdiction in criminal and civil cases. lay and inexpert holders of the law. |
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bow street runners |
john fielding; some of the most famous policemen in english history; |
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Sir robert peel |
metropolitan police act 1829; stressed crime prevention, not well received by people of london; peels 9 principles of policing |
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political era 1840-1930 |
politics and law, broad social services, decentralized, intimate relationship to ccommunity, foot patrol, citizen and politiccal satisfaction |
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reform era (1930s-1980s) |
law and professionalism, crime control, centralized and classical, professional and remote relationship to community, preventive patrol and rapid response to calls, crime control |
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community era (1980s-present) |
community support law, and professionalism, broad provision of services, decentralized using task forces and matrices, intimate relationship to community, foot patrol problem solving and public relations, quality of life and citizen satisfaction |
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august vollmer |
development of police professionalism, police school (former police training), criminal investigation lab w/ full-time criminalist, completely mobile patrol force, college students as police recruits, selection criteria, first radio car, advocated for police as social workers |
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wiskersham commission |
first national study of crime and criminal justice, reports recommended increased police professionalism, the recommendations were reported but not implemented |
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william h parker |
police as "the thin blue line." focus on police as professional crime fighters. administrative reorganization of LAPD emphasized simplified command structure, more officers freed up for duty on streets. opposed restrictions on police methods |
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watchman style of policing |
maintaining order through informal methods |
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political patronage |
dispension of favours or rewards such as public office, jobs, contracts, prestige, subsidies, or other valued benefits by a patron |
