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It refers to the activities carried out by police officers to maintain law and order, prevent
crime, enforce regulations, and ensure public safety within a community or society.
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Denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or
quality greater or less in extent than that of another.
quality greater or less in extent than that of another.
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| definition | term |
|---|---|
| It refers to the activities carried out by police officers to maintain law and order, prevent crime, enforce regulations, and ensure public safety within a community or society. | Policing |
| Denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another. | Comparative |
| It is the process of outlining the similarities and differences of one police system to another in order to discover insights in the field of international policing. | Comparative Police System |
| A combination of related elements that is functioning as a whole in order to achieve a single goal or objective. | System |
| It studies the similarities and differences in structure, goals, punishment, and emphasis on rights, as well as the history and political stature of different systems. | Comparative Criminal Justice |
| A researcher visits another country to directly observe and collect data on their criminal justice system. | Safari Method |
| The researcher communicates with a foreign researcher who has expertise in the specific country or system being studied. | Collaborative Method |
| It involves the study and description of one country’s law, criminal procedure, or justice process. | International Criminal Justice |
| The following are the basic reasons why systems and issues in criminal justice are compared, except: | To be unaffected by the experience of others. |
| Also known as Anglo-American Justice, they were distinguished by a strong adversarial system where lawyers interpret and judges are bound by precedent. | Common Law System |
| Derive all their procedures and practices from interpretations of the Koran. | Islamic System |
| Known as Marxist-Leninist Justice and exists in many places, such as Africa and Asia, where there has been a communist revolution or the remnants of one. | Socialist System |
| This type of criminal justice law was distinguished by a strong inquisitorial system where fewer rights are granted to the accused, and the written law is taken as gospel as subject to little interpretation. | Civil Law System |
| Also referred to as primitive society. It has little codification law, no specification among police, and a system that punishes that just let things go without attention until things become too much, and then harsh, barbaric punishment is resorted to. | Folk-communal society |
| This type of society relies on trade as the essence of their market system. It has civil law, a special police force, and punishment is inconsistent, sometimes harsh, sometimes lenient. | Urban- commercial society |
| The society produces most of the goods and services they need without government interference, and the system of punishment is run on market principles of creating incentives and disincentives. | Urban-industrial society |
| This society is a modern post-industrial society where the emphasis is upon technique, or the “technologizing” of everything with the government. | Bureaucratic society |
| In this theory, policemen are servants of higher authority. | Continental Theory |
| It is the police service that prevails in countries with decentralized forms of government. | Home Rule Theory |
| It is theory in comparative policing that states as a nation develops, people’s alertness to crime is heightened, so they report more crime to police and also demand the police become more effective at solving problems. | Alertness to Crime Theory |
| Crime everywhere is the result of unrestrained migration and overpopulation in urban areas such as ghettos and slums. | Economic or Migration Theory |
| It is based on the event of when a greater number of children are being born, because as these baby booms grow up, delinquent subcultures develop out of the adolescent identity crisis. | Demographic Theory |
| The theory holds that progress comes along with rising expectations, and people at the bottom develop unrealistic expectations, while people at the top don’t see themselves rising fast enough. | Deprivation Theory |
| This type of theory identifies the problem as society becoming too complex. | Modernization Theory |
| It suggests that progressive lifestyles and norms result in the disintegration of older norms that once held people together. | Theory of Anomie and Synomie |
| The yardstick of the efficiency of the police is determined by the number of arrests. | Old Concept |
| Their yardstick of efficiency is the absence or decreasing number of crimes. | Modern Concept |
| According to the theory, as living standards rise, victims become more careless with their property, increasing the opportunities for crime. | Opportunity Theory |
| Military bodies who serve as guardians of peace in ancient Rome, in which the idea of policing is said to have originated. | Praetorian Guards |
| A French term that claimed to be the origin of the term police officer. | Officer de Paix |
| A system of policing whereby a group of ten neighboring male residents over twelve years of age were required to guard the town to preserve peace and protect the lives and properties of the people. | Frankpledge System |
| System of policing emerged during the Anglo-Saxon period whereby all male residents were required to guard the town to preserve peace and protect the lives and properties of the people. | Tun Policing |
| Ten families in a town equaled a tithing, and each tithing elected a leader who was known as the _________. | Tithingman |
| A village law started in Britain that provided methods of apprehending a criminal by an act of the complainant shouting to call all male residents to assemble and arrest the suspect. | Hue and Cry |
| A judicial practice wherein the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting him to an unpleasant, usually dangerous, experience. | Trial by Ordeal |
| This system of policing existed during the time of Norman William the Conqueror. When he invaded and conquered England, a military regime of conquerors and dictators began and changed the concept of crime being committed against the state. | Normal Period |
| This is said to be the origin of the word “Sheriff.” | Shire-Reeve |
| Two ____________ were appointed to each village to aid the Reeve in his duties. | Constabuli |
| A judge selected to hear cases that were formerly being judged by the Shire-Reeve and tasked to travel through and hear criminal cases. | Travelling Judge |
| The following are the features of Legis Henrici, or “Law of Henry,” except ______. | The police have the broad power to arrest. |
| In 1195, King Richard of England appointed knights to keep the king’s peace by standing as guards on bridges and gates while checking the people entering and leaving the cities and towns. | Keepers of the Peace |
| A law promulgated by King John of England upon the demand of the Knights of the Round Table forcing the King to sign the same. | Magna Carta (Great Charter) |
| It is called by this name because the laws governing policing came out of the capital of England. | Westinster Period |
| The law that marks the beginning of the curfew hours, which demanded the closing of the gates of London during sundown. | Statute of 1295 |
| Three or four men who were learned in the law of the land were given authority to pursue, arrest, chastise, and imprison violators of the law. | Justice of the Peace |
| It was established as a special court that tried offenders against the state. | Star Chamber Court |
| In 1663, King Charles II appointed and employed male citizens to be on duty at night. They were considered the first security guards. | Night Watchmen and Bellmen |
| He established the first organized patrol called Bow Street Runners or Thief Catcher. | Henry Fielding |
| He is the Father of the Modern Policing System. | Robert Peel |
| It became the world’s first modern organized police force. | London Metropolitan Police |
| In 17th century in France, he maintained a small central police organization consisting of some 40 inspectors who, with the help of numerous paid informants, supplied the government with details about the conduct of private individuals. | King Louis XIV |
| The French were the first to establish uniformed police officers; they were called | Sergeant de Ville |
| They carried a rattle while on duty to inform the public of their watchful presence. | Rattlewatch |
| Year when the New York City Police Force began to adopt a full police uniform. | 1856 |
| New Haven had a police regulation that “No watchmen will have the liberty to sleep." | 1722 |
| It is based on the presumption that repression of criminal behavior is the most important aspect of police duty and therefore should be given priority. | Crime Control Model |
| Police policy is that it is far better than 100 guilty men escaping justice rather than one innocent person being convicted. | Due Process Model |
| The policing works on the principle of consent. This is primarily applicable in parliamentary democracy. | Policing by consent |
| The policing power is vested in the state by law. | Policing by law |
| It simply means one police force operating in a country. The police force in a country has a centralized command. | Centralized law enforcement |
| Refers to a system where police administrations and operations are independent from one state to another. And it is more applicable to countries with federal government. | Decentralized law enforcement |
| In this type of court system, the accused is innocent until proven guilty. | Adversarial System |
| In this system, lesser rights are granted to the accused, and the written law is taken as gospel and subject to little interpretation. | Inquisitorial System |
| It is the deployment of law enforcement professionals to work in and around schools. | Community Policing |
| This theory says that the little things matter. And it is a symbol of unaccountability. So, enforcing the smallest laws could prevent the large ones from being broken. | Broken Windows Theory |
| An approach to policing in which discrete pieces of police business are subject to microscopic examination in hopes that what is freshly learned about each problem will lead to a new, more discovering, and more effective strategy for dealing with it. | Problem-Oriented Policing |
| It consists of selecting a particular crime problem and convening an inter-agency working group of law enforcement, prosecution, other justice agency officials, local government, social service, and community-based practitioners. | Pulling Levers Policing |
| It describes police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties, such as landlords, parents, local governments, and other regulators, to take some responsibility for preventing crime or reducing crime problems. | Third Party Policing |
| A popular policing strategy that addresses crime by assigning limited police resources to areas where crimes are more highly concentrated. It is also referred to as place-based policing. | Hot Spot Policing |
| This policing focused on evidence-based practices. | Evidence Policing |
| It is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. | Globalization |
| Crimes that have actual or potential effect across national borders and crimes that are intra-state but which offend fundamental values | Transnational Crimes |
| Defined as crimes against the peace and security of mankind. | International Crimes |
| It is the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money, typically by means of a transfer involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses. | Money Laundering |
| The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. | Terrorism |
| It is the illegal movement of people, typically for the purpose of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. | Human Trafficking |
| Defined as any type of illegal activity that makes use of the Internet, a private or public network, or an in-house computer system. | Cybercrime |
| It is the commercial exchange of drugs and drug paraphernalia. This includes any equipment used to manufacture illegal drugs or use them. | Drug Trafficking |
| The following are the characteristics of terrorism, except ______: | Aimed at Politicians |
| The act of conveying or introducing surreptitiously or to import and export secretly contrary to law and especially without paying duties imposed by law. | Smuggling |
| It is the submission to a dominating influence or the state of a person who is a chattel of another. | Slavery |
| It is typically an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. | Piracy |
| It is an organized and relatively stable business that uses violence and threats against competitors. | Criminal Syndicate |
| Refers to the social organization of criminals with its own social classes and norms. | Criminal World |
| It is a combination of two or more persons for the purpose of establishing by terror, threat, intimidation, or conception in the city, municipality, or any community | Organized Crime |
| It involves the planning and execution of illicit business ventures by groups or networks of individuals working in more than one country. | Transnational Organized Crime |
| While globalization brings the threats and many other threats to law enforcement, opportunities like the following are carried, except | While globalization brings the threats and many other threats to law enforcement, opportunities like the following are carried, except |
| The following are the threats of globalization on law enforcement, except; | The underprivileged gain fair access to global mechanisms on law enforcement and security. |
| The following are the effects of globalization on law enforcement, except; | Dismissing the threat of international organized crime and neglecting the development of strategies to address it. |
| It is the process of removing government-imposed restrictions on movements between countries in order to create an “open” and “borderless” world economy. | Globalization as Liberalization |
| Globalization is understood as a dynamic, whereby the social structures of modernity are spread the world over, normally destroying pre-existent cultures and local self- determination. | Globalization as Westernization or Modernization |
| It is a process of spreading various objects and experiences to people at all corners of the earth. | Globalization as Universalization |
| It entails a reconfiguration of geography, so that social space is no longer mapped in terms of territorial places, territorial distances, and territorial borders. | Globalization as Deterritorialization |
| Globalization is simply the intensification of cross-border relations between countries. It focuses on the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of nations through trade, investment, migration, and communication. | Globalization as Internationalization |
| The United Nations has identified the following as international crimes, except: | Sexual Assault |
| The following are the basic goals of policing, except: | Promote authoritarianism |
| It is a multifaceted system for managing police operations and is used in many law enforcement agencies in the US and around the world. | CompStat Policing |
| Ten tithings formed a "hundred," and the leader of this larger group was the _________. | Reeve |
| England was divided into 55 military districts called __________. | Shire |
| Under the rule of Oliver Cromwell (1655), England and Wales were divided into 12 military districts, each headed by a ___________. | Provost Marshall |
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