2.33: CRJ 4.1 Multiple Choice Questions (28)
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Another name for the Frankpledge System.
- Hue and Cry
- Mutual Pledge System
- Political Era
- Civil Service
The ancient code of laws that, according to the Old Testament, were given by God to Moses.
- Decentralized
- O. W. Wilson
- Mosaic Code
- Preventive Patrol
A period during the Nineteenth Century when policing in America’s large urban centers was defined by political patronage and graft and corruption were rampant.
- Magna Carta
- Reform Era
- Proactive
- Political Era
The geographical territory to which a patrol officer is assigned.
- Beat
- Posse Comitatus
- Code of Hammurabi
- Frankpledge System
A period beginning in the early 1900s when police professionalism became the dominate paradigm of policing in the United States.
- Reform Era
- Political Era
- Preventive Patrol
- Proactive
A church based administrative division of territory; corresponds to a county in modern usage.
- Hundred
- Parish
- Code of Hammurabi
- O. W. Wilson
A man elected to preside over a tithing (a group of ten families) under the mutual pledge system.
- Reform Era
- Beat
- Tithingman
- O. W. Wilson
A group of ten families under the mutual pledge system.
- Frankpledge System
- Tithing
- Tithingman
- Nationalization
The chief law enforcement officer of a county; the office originated in feudal England as the shire-reeve.
- August Vollmer
- Sheriff
- Shire
- Kin Policing
A Latin legal phrase meaning the “power of the county;” a group of all able bodied men that the sheriff could summon to give chase to a fugitive.
- Political Era
- Preventive Patrol
- Posse Comitatus
- Decentralized
A police reformer known for his strong support for higher education and professionalism in policing.
- Watch and Ward
- Kin Policing
- Mutual Pledge System
- August Vollmer
A system of government service employment based on merit and examinations rather than on political patronage.
- Tithingman
- Civil Service
- Posse Comitatus
- Amalgamation
Acting in response to a situation rather than creating it or controlling it; the opposite of proactive.
- Reactive
- Frankpledge System
- Nationalization
- Civil Service
An English office during feudal times that evolved into the modern office of sheriff.
- Shire-reeve
- Political Era
- Parish
- Tithing
An influential leader in policing, popularizing the idea of police professionalism that would shape policing in America for decades to come.
- O. W. Wilson
- Decentralized
- Hue and Cry
- Civil Service
The process or result of uniting or consolidating things.
- Amalgamation
- Kin Policing
- Tithing
- Preventive Patrol
A charter of liberties that the English Barons forced King John to sign in 1215.
- Proactive
- Preventive Patrol
- Amalgamation
- Magna Carta
A policing strategy based on the idea that officers in highly visible uniforms and vehicles will deter crime by their mere presence in the community.
- Kin Policing
- Preventive Patrol
- Civil Service
- Hundred
An old English term for a geographical area equivalent to a modern county.
- Shire
- Tithingman
- Watch and Ward
- Proactive
Controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to an event after it has happened.
- Amalgamation
- Proactive
- Code of Hammurabi
- Tithingman
A calling out to the members of a community in order to collectively pursue a criminal, as was mandated under old English law.
- Magna Carta
- Reform Era
- Hue and Cry
- Code of Hammurabi
A system of policing used in England during the Early Middle Ages whereby communities were divided into small groups (tithings) that were collectively responsible for the conduct of all members.
- Amalgamation
- Beat
- Frankpledge System
- Code of Hammurabi
An ancient system of law enforcement where law enforcement responsibility was held by all citizens, and everyone was responsible for the conduct of their extended families.
- Political Era
- Kin Policing
- August Vollmer
- Amalgamation
A policing system used in Medieval English towns where community members were appointed to serve as guards during the day (the ward) and at night (the watch).
- O. W. Wilson
- Political Era
- Watch and Ward
- Mosaic Code
A unit of ten tithings (or 100 households) under the old English Frankpledge system.
- Shire-reeve
- Reform Era
- Hundred
- Tithingman
To bring under the control of a nation, such as the government of the United States.
- Reform Era
- Reactive
- Nationalization
- Tithingman
A set of laws developed by Babylonian King Hammurabi that date back to the 18th century BC; the earliest written legal code known.
- Posse Comitatus
- Shire-reeve
- Mosaic Code
- Code of Hammurabi
Not having a single administrative center.
- Amalgamation
- Decentralized
- Reactive
- Kin Policing
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