Final Exam Study Guide for CCJS 407
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Crime suppression - correct answer ✔✔Control and prevention of crime through the actual or
implied presence of police. Traditionally the most important police function.
1 V. 2 person patrol units - correct answer ✔✔one-person units produced more arrests, write
more crime reports, and receive fewer complaints, two-officer cars encounter more resistance
from citizens.
Predictive policing - correct answer ✔✔A form of policing that uses data analysis to respond to
crime more quickly and anticipate its "when and where" so that police can engage in
preventative and preemptive practices
Intelligence-led policing - correct answer ✔✔Operational strategy to reduce crime where crime
analysis and criminal intelligence are used to guide police activities and priorities.
Crack down - correct answer ✔✔Intensive, short-term increases in officer presence and arrests
for the specific types of offenses or for all offenses in specific areas.
Focused deterrence - correct answer ✔✔a multiagency approach to address a particular crime
problem that couples supportive services and community engagement with enhanced certainty
of punishment for high-risk offenders and groups.
Situational crime prevention - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on the settings where crime occurs
rather than on those committing specific criminal acts. Tries to Reduce the opportunities for
crime.
, CPTED - correct answer ✔✔Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design is an agenda to
manipulate the built environment to create safer neighborhoods
Coercive territorial control - correct answer ✔✔police are trained formally/socialized to view
their work in terms of uses of force and controlling the territories they're assigned to.
Loose coupling - correct answer ✔✔police develop strategies and tactics to protect themselves
when department goals and policies are perceived to undermine their ability to do their work.
universalistic perspective - correct answer ✔✔Views of police behavior that look for the ways
officers are similar.
particularistic perspective - correct answer ✔✔Views of the police that emphasize the
difference among police officers.
Socialization theory - correct answer ✔✔Theory that police behavior, both positive and
negative, is determined more by work experiences and peers than by re-employment values
and attitudes.
Predispositional theory - correct answer ✔✔The idea that the behavior of a police officer is
primarily explained by the characteristics, values, and attitudes of that person before he or she
was employed.
Symbolic assailant - correct answer ✔✔Type of person the police officer thinks is potentially
dangerous or troublesome, usually because of the way the person walks, talks, and dresses.
Corruption - correct answer ✔✔dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power.
questions with 100% complete solutions
passed
Crime suppression - correct answer ✔✔Control and prevention of crime through the actual or
implied presence of police. Traditionally the most important police function.
1 V. 2 person patrol units - correct answer ✔✔one-person units produced more arrests, write
more crime reports, and receive fewer complaints, two-officer cars encounter more resistance
from citizens.
Predictive policing - correct answer ✔✔A form of policing that uses data analysis to respond to
crime more quickly and anticipate its "when and where" so that police can engage in
preventative and preemptive practices
Intelligence-led policing - correct answer ✔✔Operational strategy to reduce crime where crime
analysis and criminal intelligence are used to guide police activities and priorities.
Crack down - correct answer ✔✔Intensive, short-term increases in officer presence and arrests
for the specific types of offenses or for all offenses in specific areas.
Focused deterrence - correct answer ✔✔a multiagency approach to address a particular crime
problem that couples supportive services and community engagement with enhanced certainty
of punishment for high-risk offenders and groups.
Situational crime prevention - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on the settings where crime occurs
rather than on those committing specific criminal acts. Tries to Reduce the opportunities for
crime.
, CPTED - correct answer ✔✔Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design is an agenda to
manipulate the built environment to create safer neighborhoods
Coercive territorial control - correct answer ✔✔police are trained formally/socialized to view
their work in terms of uses of force and controlling the territories they're assigned to.
Loose coupling - correct answer ✔✔police develop strategies and tactics to protect themselves
when department goals and policies are perceived to undermine their ability to do their work.
universalistic perspective - correct answer ✔✔Views of police behavior that look for the ways
officers are similar.
particularistic perspective - correct answer ✔✔Views of the police that emphasize the
difference among police officers.
Socialization theory - correct answer ✔✔Theory that police behavior, both positive and
negative, is determined more by work experiences and peers than by re-employment values
and attitudes.
Predispositional theory - correct answer ✔✔The idea that the behavior of a police officer is
primarily explained by the characteristics, values, and attitudes of that person before he or she
was employed.
Symbolic assailant - correct answer ✔✔Type of person the police officer thinks is potentially
dangerous or troublesome, usually because of the way the person walks, talks, and dresses.
Corruption - correct answer ✔✔dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power.
