CJL 3038 Lecture 8: Module 8 .docx

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CJL 3038
• Professor: Lora Levett

Document Summary

Police discretion: use of arrest and alternative uses of arrest, crowd control, demonstrations, police have different ways to control, when police arrest its not always with the intent to prosecute a crime, decision not to arrest, police believe community wants lenient or lax enforcement. Watch out waldo is a speed trap after the billboard went up more people contested their ticket: believe other duties are more urgent or important, not arresting may serve another need i. e if an officer wants to make a big drug bust, they may turn a person the person into an informant instead of arresting them, use of discretion, decide on the level of priority to give to each of their functions. Bc all the discretion, violations are informally, try to maintain more relationships than enforcing law: legalistic style, opposite of watchman, least discretion, treats all situations as if they were serious infractions of the law, high rate of traffic tickets, arrests.