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| Crime Control Stratagies (p. 261) |
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Definition
| Lawerence W. Sherman provides most systematic classification system on crime control stratagies used by the police. |
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| Proactive versues Reactive (p. 261) |
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Definition
- Proactive - the police themselves initiate anticrime stratagies
Reflects the police dept. own sense of priority
- Reactive - anticrime stratagies occur in response to a citizens request for service.
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| General versus Specific (p. 262) |
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Definition
| Police activities are general in the sense that they are directed at the community and not at any particular crime. Specific crime control activites are directed at particular crimes, places, or victims. |
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| Particular Crimes (p. 262) |
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Definition
| Routine patrol and the 911 system are general service activities. Other programs are directed at particular crimes (i.e. drunk-driving crackdowns). |
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| Routine patrol serves the community at large. "Hot spots " are directed at specific high crime areas. |
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| Specific Offenders (p. 262) |
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| Some anticrime activities are directed at particular offenders. The bex examples of this are repeat-offender programs. |
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| Specific Victims (p. 262) |
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Definition
| Some anticrime programs are directed at victims. For example, domestic abuse programs and mandatory arrest policies. |
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Term
| Crime Control Assumptions - Police and Citizens (p. 262) |
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Definition
- Many people see the police and the criminal justice system as society's primary mechanism for controlling crime.
- Experts believe that the definition of professionalism isolates the police and cuts them off from the community.
- To solve isolation from the community, advocates of community policing emphasize the development of working relationships wth neighborhood residents.
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