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Exam #2
exam 2
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 1
02/21/2013

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British Origin: history of police (3)
Definition
1. Frank Pledge System

2. Bow Street Runners

3. Thames River Police
Term
Colonial Origin: History of Police (2)
Definition
1. No formal Police

2. Influence of church
Term
Progressive/Scientific Era: History of Police (3)
Definition
1. immigration increases and more poor + crime + social/economic problems

2. development of mental hospitals, orphanages, prisons, and poor houses

3. increase in vagrance and prostitution
Term
Progressive/Scientific Era: what type of crime?
Definition
socially offensive crimes

ex: vagrance and prostitution
Term
Industrialization: History of policing (2)
Definition
1. organized labor unions

2. resources and manufacturing equipment needed protection
Term
Industrialization: type of crime
Definition
property crime
Term
List: 3 things that american policing system adopted from the british
Definition
1. fragmented organization

2. local control

3. limited authority
Term
What was the first policing system established in england?
Definition
Frankpledge system
Term
What was England's Frankpledge System?
Definition
Tithes: familes expected to band together to protect each other

-males older than 12 were forced to participate in tithing

-expected to warn others of crimes

families were fined if they failed to protect
Term
How did gin contribute to the development of law enforcement?
Definition
-there as an excess in grain so they needed to do something with it

-discounted price of grain and made it into gin

-overproduction of gin

-price of gin dropped and everyone could afford it (democratized drunkenness)

-drunk and disorderly behavior

-privately hired watchmen

-people with money moved to the suburbs; concentrated poverty and drunks

-solution: increase tax on gin
Term
British origin: what was the government's response to the overproduction of gin and increased amount of disorderly behavior and drunkenness? (2)
Definition
-hired private watchmen

-increased tax on gin
Term
British origin: Who organized the Bow Street Runners?
Definition
Henry Fielding
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