Law enforcement exam 1 Complete Questions And Answers 100% Verified.
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Why is social order important? - correct answer Keeping chaos and disorder from breaking out and havoc from running rampant.
What is the consensus viewpoint and how does it relate to maintaining social order? - correct answer ...
Why is social order important? - correct answer Keeping chaos and disorder from
breaking out and havoc from running rampant.
What is the consensus viewpoint and how does it relate to maintaining social order? - correct answer
Theorists who adopt the consensus viewpoint emphasize the degree to which people agree about what
is right and what is wrong. They would explain that widely held beliefs or community standards guide
the way in which everybody behaves.
What is the conflict perspective and how does it relate to maintaining social order - correct answer
Conflict perspective believe that a small minority of powerful persons manipulate the legal system in
order to preserve their advantage.
Explain what a "norm" is. - correct answer Every culture contains a series of rules or
norms that govern what people do, how they should act, and how others expect them to conduct
themselves. Norms, then, are the standards for how people should behave. They make social interaction
routine and predictable.
What is a "folkway"? - correct answer Behavioral expectations that deal with minor
norms. Etiquette, holding the door.
A "more"? - correct answer Major norms. Ten commandments. Normative
standards that evoke strong reaction if violated. Prohibition against cannibalism, murder, incest.
What is "deviant behavior"? - correct answer Any action that exceeds social
tolerance levels or oversteps the boundaries established by the folkways and mores.
Give an example of an informal social control device. Why is this device so powerful? - correct answer
Actions taken by people to sanction behavior. A positive informal social control rewards people for good
behavior. Making the dean's list. A negative informal social control device adversely affects the person
whose behavior is not in compliance. Rumors, ostracism- shunning, vigilantism, group of people coming
together for greater security.
, Given an example of a formal social control device - correct answer The law and the
criminal justice system. Law describes behavior that is forbidden and specifies the penalty attached to a
violation of that law. Murder, robbery, sexual assault.
Gemeinshaft? - correct answer Small communtiy, primary relationships, behave in a
close and intimate way.
Gesellschaft? - correct answer Do not share a very close bond. Modern society with
all its hustle and bustle.
What does the term "primary relationship" mean? - correct answer Emotional
attachment to that person. Parent, child, husband, wife.
What does the term "secondary relationship" mean? - correct answer Secondary
relationships, does not reveal his or hers innermost feelings or personal secrets.
What is "anomie"? - correct answer A state of normlessness. People no longer feel
attached to the common conscience or accountable others. Greater amount of crime and deviant
behavior.
What benefits accompany the transition from a gemeinschaft to a gesellschaft society? - correct answer
Law, mortality, and civilization generally become more rational.
What is a "tithing"? Was it an informal or formal social control technique? - correct answer
Units consisting of ten families. Responsible for the behavior of all its members.
What does the "hue and cry" mean? - correct answer If a member became
errant/misbehaving, it was the duty of the chief tithing- man to raise the hue and cry. In other words,
the chief tithingman rounded up all the other tithing members and this posse would begin searching for
the wayward individual. When the tithing located the violator, the members took this person into
custody and either punished the crook or confined the deviant member until the authorities reached the
tun.
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