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Term 1 of 116
job redesign
an effort to enrich police work by broadening the role in order that the job will be its own
reward
programs, organizations, or police-community relationships that facilitate the community's
participation in its own protection
directing individuals to achieve departmental goals efficiently and effectively
expected behavior from group members, which can be a powerful factor in resistance to
organizational change
Term 2 of 116
chain of command
refers to being treated fairly by police officers who are acting under the authority of
criminal law
levels in an organizational hierarchy; the higher the level, the greater the power, authority,
and influence
changes in policing practices or management that occur within a department. ex: allowing
for greater employee participation in the development and implementation of new policies
retention of authority and decision making by the top levels of a police department
,Definition 3 of 116
the formal patterns of arrangements and in relationships developed by police management to
accomplish departmental goalss
organizational change
organization committment
organizational design
balance of power
Term 4 of 116
This approach emphasizes the necessity of tailoring crime prevention responses to the specific
characteristics of the crime problem being address- it rejects any one-size-fits-all thinking:
Top Managers
Relatively little improvement has been made by departments toward evaluating and
rewarding community policing practices
Situational crime prevention
inertia
Term 5 of 116
This is described as "doing things as they have always been done "
Top Managers
inertia
job redesign
misused or underutilized
,Term 6 of 116
differential police response (DPR)
-effective and energetic leadership from office of the Chief (most important)
-chief must be able to motivate departmental personnel
-integrity of innovation must be defended
- public support
differential response programs classify incoming calls according to their degree of
seriousness, and base the type of action police take on that classification. Such programs
can decrease costs and increase efficiency.
operational strategy to reduce crime where crime analysis and criminal intelligence are
used to guide police activities and priorities
a proposed unit to help police departments to become learning organizations by going
beyond mere statistical descriptions of departmental input and outputs and trying to
develop new ideas
Term 7 of 116
With the Chicago experiment, rather than forming special community-policing units , the whole
department would change. True or false?
True
False
Definition 8 of 116
community-policing strategy that emphasizes a more proactive and preventative orientation,
encouraging better use of police officers' time by devoting the substantial resource of free patrol
time to directed enforcement activities, specific crime prevention efforts, problem solving,
community engagement, citizen interaction, or similar kinds of activities.
citizen input
prevention emphasis
geographic focus
advisory committies
, Definition 9 of 116
stresses the personal, long-term relationship between a police official and the individuals they
encounter
generalists
personal service
procedural justice
decentralization
Term 10 of 116
What is the name of the strategy in which officers aggressively target minor crime in order to send
a sign that behavior will not be tolerated?
-philosophical dimension
- strategic dimension
- tactical dimension
target hardening
zero-tolerance policing
paramilitary model
Term 11 of 116
Group norms can be a powerful factor in resistance to change. True or false?
True
False
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