CJ 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-15: Neighborhood Watch, Uniform Crime Reports
26 Feb 2018
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Crime control is one of the major responsibilities of the police involves responding to criminal incidents, conducting criminal investigations, and arresting offenders. Lawrence w. sherman provides the most systematic classification of the different crime control strategies. Reactive: occur in response to a citizen request for service. Specific: particular crimes, places, offenders, or victims. Drunk-driving, crackdowns, drug or gang crackdowns, or stakeouts designed to catch robbers. Specific offenders repeat offender programs that target people suspected of currently committing high rates of serious crimes. Many people see the police as society"s primary mechanism for controlling crime. Emphasized their crime-fighting role and staked out crime as their professional domain. Definition of professionalism isolated the police and cut them off from the public. Citizens are coproducers of police services, including crime-fighting activities. Police and other social institutions report on crime prevention programs by the university of maryland.
