FSC100 MIDTERM Exam Questions and Complete
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What is a police force? - ANS A constituted body of persons empowered by the state to
enforce the law, protect property and limit civil disorder
What does police mean - ANS Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining
order
Why do police forces exist in the first place? - ANS As a preventative role and for safety
Metropolitan police - ANS Often considered the template for the North American police
that followed the European trend
Sir Robert Peel - ANS 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? - ANS The public didn’t want to do it themselves
Where was the first police force in North America - ANS Toronto in the 19th century?
How did Policing begin in North America - ANS As a volunteer organization but
developed into a paid "policeman" position with formal training
First signs of Canadian legal tradition - ANS When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a
watchman system modeled after France.
Detective - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after
confederation to police the frontier territories of the Canadian west.
What are municipalities responsible for? - ANS majority of the policing services.
OPP - ANS One of the largest services in North America, provide rural policing and
support for all police agencies as required
Policing Standards Manual - ANS contains guidelines to help police services
understand the PSA
, Police Services Act - ANS regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police
services regulation
Atavism - ANS criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological deviance
Positivism - ANS crime was the product of social causes
Why is atavism and positivism contradictory now? - ANS because it seems that the
criminal mind is a blend of thaw two
Cesar Lombroso - ANS Atavist and psychiatrist, considered to be father of modern
criminology.
Recidivism - ANS repeated criminal behavior
Alexander Lacassagne - ANS Positivist and professor of legal medicine. Referred to as
a father of forensic medicine.
Lombroso's theory - ANS 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) - ANS determined identification could be made by physical
characteristics inherent in criminals
Lacassange's theory - ANS 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? - ANS Formed the basis
for gathering empirical data on crimes and the people who committed them
Alphonse Betillion - ANS 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 mug shots
Why were mug shots seemed as a waste of time? - ANS Criminals could easily change
their name
What was the problem with the Bertillon age method? - ANS It was not an accurate
system. Measurements varied dramatically. It was inconsistent.
What put an end to the Bertillon system? - ANS Fingerprinting, as the ease and process
of rolling fingers and thumbs produced a readily identifiable mark of a person's
uniqueness.
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