FSC100 MIDTERM UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. What is a police force? A constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law,
protect property and limit civil disorder
2. What does police Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order
mean
3. Why do police forces As a preventative role and for safety
exist in the first place?
4. Metropolitan police Often considered the template for the North American police that followed
the European trend
5. Sir Robert Peel a member of parliament, and became the post of secretary for the home
department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he brought out the
Metropolitan Police act.
6. Why did we have po- The public didnt want to do it themselves
lice forces?
7. Where was the first Toronto in the 19th century
police force in North
America
8. How did Policing be- As a volunteer organization but developed into a paid "policeman" posi-
gin in North America tion with formal training
9. First signs of Canadian When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a watchman system modeled after
legal tradition France.
10. Detective Specialists who sole job was to determine who committed the crime and
why. They established themselves within police agencies working less
individually and more cooperatively to close cases
11. Constables
, Appointed to lead a handful of volunteers. Simply hired as needed. Not
until a year later that five were hired and paid.
12. North West Mounted The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after confederation to police the
Police frontier territories of the Canadian west.
13. What are municipali- majority of the policing services.
ties responsible for?
14. OPP One of the largest services in North America, provide rural policing and
support for all police agencies as required
15. Policing Standards contains guidelines to help police services understand the PSA
Manual
16. Police Services Act regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police services regula-
tion
17. Atavism criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological deviance
18. Positivism crime was the product of social causes
19. Why is atavism and Because it seems that the criminal mind is a blend of thw two
positivism contradic-
tory now?
20. Cesare Lombroso Atavist and psychiatrist, considered to be father of modern criminology.
21. Recidvism repeated criminal behaviour
22. Alexander Lacassagne Positivist and professor of legal medicine. Referred to as a father of
forensic medicine.
23. Lombroso's theory
1. What is a police force? A constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law,
protect property and limit civil disorder
2. What does police Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order
mean
3. Why do police forces As a preventative role and for safety
exist in the first place?
4. Metropolitan police Often considered the template for the North American police that followed
the European trend
5. Sir Robert Peel a member of parliament, and became the post of secretary for the home
department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he brought out the
Metropolitan Police act.
6. Why did we have po- The public didnt want to do it themselves
lice forces?
7. Where was the first Toronto in the 19th century
police force in North
America
8. How did Policing be- As a volunteer organization but developed into a paid "policeman" posi-
gin in North America tion with formal training
9. First signs of Canadian When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a watchman system modeled after
legal tradition France.
10. Detective Specialists who sole job was to determine who committed the crime and
why. They established themselves within police agencies working less
individually and more cooperatively to close cases
11. Constables
, Appointed to lead a handful of volunteers. Simply hired as needed. Not
until a year later that five were hired and paid.
12. North West Mounted The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after confederation to police the
Police frontier territories of the Canadian west.
13. What are municipali- majority of the policing services.
ties responsible for?
14. OPP One of the largest services in North America, provide rural policing and
support for all police agencies as required
15. Policing Standards contains guidelines to help police services understand the PSA
Manual
16. Police Services Act regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police services regula-
tion
17. Atavism criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological deviance
18. Positivism crime was the product of social causes
19. Why is atavism and Because it seems that the criminal mind is a blend of thw two
positivism contradic-
tory now?
20. Cesare Lombroso Atavist and psychiatrist, considered to be father of modern criminology.
21. Recidvism repeated criminal behaviour
22. Alexander Lacassagne Positivist and professor of legal medicine. Referred to as a father of
forensic medicine.
23. Lombroso's theory
