FSC100 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATED A+

FSC100 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATED A+
What is a police force? - Correct Answers A constituted body of persons empowered by the state to
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enforce the law, protect property and limit civil disorder
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II! What does police mean - Correct Answers Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order
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II! Why do police forces exist in the first place? - Correct Answers As a preventative role and for safety
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II! Metropolitan police - Correct Answers Often considered the template for the North American police II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II!




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II! Sir Robert Peel - Correct Answers a member of parliament, and became the post of secretary for the
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II! home department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he brought out the Metropolitan Police act.
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II! Why did we have police forces? - Correct Answers The public didnt want to do it themselves
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II! Where was the first police force in North America - Correct Answers Toronto in the 19th century
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II! How did Policing begin in North America - Correct Answers As a volunteer organization but developed
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II! into a paid "policeman" position with formal training
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II! First signs of Canadian legal tradition - Correct Answers When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a
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II! Detective - Correct Answers Specialists who sole job was to determine who committed the crime and
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II! why. They established themselves within police agencies working less individually and more cooperatively
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II! to close cases
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, II! Constables - Correct Answers Appointed to lead a handful of volunteers. Simply hired as needed. Not
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II! until a year later that five were hired and paid.
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II! North West Mounted Police - Correct Answers The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after
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II! confederation to police the frontier territories of the Canadian west. II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II!




II! What are municipalities responsible for? - Correct Answers majority of the policing services.
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II! OPP - Correct Answers One of the largest services in North America, provide rural policing and support
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II! Policing Standards Manual - Correct Answers contains guidelines to help police services understand the
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II! Police Services Act - Correct Answers regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police services
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II! Atavism - Correct Answers criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological deviance
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II! Positivism - Correct Answers crime was the product of social causes II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II!




II! Why is atavism and positivism contradictory now? - Correct Answers Because it seems that the criminal
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II! mind is a blend of thw two
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II! Cesare Lombroso - Correct Answers Atavist and psychiatrist, considered to be father of modern
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II! Recidvism - Correct Answers repeated criminal behaviour II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II! II!




II! Alexander Lacassagne - Correct Answers Positivist and professor of legal medicine. Referred to as a
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