Deck 17: Thinking About Punishment

Question 1

Bittner uncovered a paradox in police work: although police are bound by professional codes, legal rules and bureaucracy, once on the street these codes are too inflexible to adapt to the plethora of police tasks. Officers thus rely on the informal rules of their occupational culture to get the job done.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What are the arguments against arming the police?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

How did the ´new police´ change policing?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Reiner (2000) suggests that cop culture is characterized by which of the following core features?

A)Suspicion
B)Isolation/solidarity
C)Moral and political conservativism
D)Old-fashioned machismo
E)Pragmatism

Question 5

Zero tolerance policing (ZTP) conveyed a policy of tough enforcement on the street, constant police pressure with high visibility, vigorously tackling ´disorder´ by doing which of these?

A)focusing on minor offences
B)crime mapping
C)targeting of ´hot spots´
D)using restorative justice
E)hounding frequent offenders

Question 6

Which of these are legitimate policing models?

A)Community policing
B)Hot spot policing
C)Police patrol
D)Intelligence-led policing
E)Fire brigade policing

Question 7

Which of the following were early forms of policing in England?

A)Bow Street Runners
B)The Watch
C)The Old Police
D)The New Police
E)Dad´s Army

Question 8

Who developed the broken-window theory used by the NYPD in the 1990s?

A)Wilson and Kelling
B)Wilson and Smith
C)Smith and Kelling
D)Wilson and Zimbardo
E)Zimbardo and Kelling

Question 9

Who stated that ´Public order policing is irreducibly political; it is a highly visible representation between state and citizen´?

A)Reiner
B)Waddington
C)Jefferson
D)Young
E)Cohen

Question 10

Why is discretion so vital and yet so damaging to the police?