Exam 5: Policing: History and Structure

Vigilantism is the act of taking the law into one's own hands.

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.Match the federal agencies with the department they fall under. -FBI,DEA,US Marshals Service

Answer each part of the following questions with succinct and comprehensive information by citing examples of various models, laws, and justice theories in your answer. -The Kansas City studies had an impact on several traditional views about police patrol work. Discuss the study and specifically the affect they had on preventative patrol and traditional response to calls for service.

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.Match the federal agencies with the department they fall under. -National Park Service,US Park Police

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is part of the Department of ________.

List and define the three levels of Law Enforcement.Give examples of each level.

Answer each part of the following questions with succinct and comprehensive information by citing examples of various models, laws, and justice theories in your answer. -What is evidence-based policing? What assumptions about police work have scientific studies of law enforcement called into question? What other assumptions made about police work today might be similarly questioned or studied?

The nation's largest law enforcement agency is in:

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.Match the federal agencies with the department they fall under. -Food and Drug Administration,Office of Criminal Investigations

A federal agency that was established to funnel federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies that is now defunct was:

Which local law enforcement official is responsible for serving court papers,maintaining security within courtrooms,and running the county jail?

One of the major factors determining the development of American law enforcement was the frontier.Discuss some of the early Americans and tactics,mentioned in the chapter that had an impact on police work

What are the three major levels of law enforcement?

What different kinds of local law enforcement agencies exist in the United States today? What role does each agency have in enforcing the law?

Describe the role of the private protected services today and in the future in the U.S.

In any discussion of evidence-based policing,it is important to remember that the word "evidence" refers to criminal evidence,not scientific evidence.