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FSC100 MIDTERM Exam Questions With Correct Answers What is a police force? - answerA constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property and limit civil disorder What does police mean - answerDescribe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order Why do p...

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FSC100 MIDTERM Exam Questions With
Correct Answers

What is a police force? - answer✔A constituted body of persons empowered by the state to
enforce the law, protect property and limit civil disorder

What does police mean - answer✔Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order

Why do police forces exist in the first place? - answer✔As a preventative role and for safety

Metropolitan police - answer✔Often considered the template for the North American police that
followed the European trend

Sir Robert Peel - answer✔a member of parliament, and became the post of secretary for the
home department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he brought out the Metropolitan Police
act.

Why did we have police forces? - answer✔The public didnt want to do it themselves

Where was the first police force in North America - answer✔Toronto in the 19th century

How did Policing begin in North America - answer✔As a volunteer organization but developed
into a paid "policeman" position with formal training

First signs of Canadian legal tradition - answer✔When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a watchman
system modeled after France.

Detective - answer✔Specialists who sole job was to determine who committed the crime and
why. They established themselves within police agencies working less individually and more
cooperatively to close cases

Constables - answer✔Appointed to lead a handful of volunteers. Simply hired as needed. Not
until a year later that five were hired and paid.

North West Mounted Police - answer✔The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after confederation
to police the frontier territories of the Canadian west.

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What are municipalities responsible for? - answer✔majority of the policing services.

OPP - answer✔One of the largest services in North America, provide rural policing and support
for all police agencies as required

Policing Standards Manual - answer✔contains guidelines to help police services understand the
PSA

Police Services Act - answer✔regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police services
regulation

Atavism - answer✔criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological deviance

Positivism - answer✔crime was the product of social causes

Why is atavism and positivism contradictory now? - answer✔Because it seems that the criminal
mind is a blend of thw two

Cesare Lombroso - answer✔Atavist and psychiatrist, considered to be father of modern
criminology.

Recidvism - answer✔repeated criminal behaviour

Alexander Lacassagne - answer✔Positivist and professor of legal medicine. Referred to as a
father of forensic medicine.

Lombroso's theory - answer✔People are going to have certain physical characteristics if they
have deviant behavior. Demonstrated using skulls, tattoos, arguing that criminals were born
deviant

Criminal man (Lombroso) - answer✔determined identification could be made by physical
characteristics inherent in criminals

Lacassange's theory - answer✔used charts and maps of crime statistics in France and biographies
of criminals to link crime rates with geography. Societies have the criminals they deserve

Why were Lombroso's and Lacassagne's methods important? - answer✔Formed the basis for
gathering empirical data on crimes and the people who committed them

Alphonse Betillion - answer✔Devised another means of identification, looking at the physical
attributes of individuals and taking those measurements and creating a database so when they
arrest, they can reference that. Also created mugshots

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