CJ ST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Community Policing, Volstead Act, Unpretty
25 Oct 2016
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Policing dealt with the enforcement of morals and was the responsibility of families (kin) Under kin system, the family of offended individual was expected to assume responsibility for securing justice by capturing, branding, or killing the offender. Policing was often inseparable from military and police themselves were visually distinct from other citizens. Both in terms of function and uniform. During middle ages (circa 400 to 1600 a. d. ) lawlessness reigned and citizen vigilante groups combated crime. After the norman invasion (1066-1300) in england, tithing were 10 males over the age of. Ten tithings (known as a hundred) were supervised by shire-reeve (the antecedent of the word sheriff) Throughout history, it has been gathered that you must have some sort of law enforcement, or else there will be an outbreak of violence and other criminal activity. By adopting the english system, police had limited authority and thus legitimacy problems, were locally controlled or parochial, and fragmented.
