CRIM1019 chapter 1-3

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Police - objectives
- less crime and more safe feelings
- maintaining public order
- establish relationship with citizens for problem-solving partner
- provide assistance in emergencies
- promote road safety and traffic management
- enforce the law
Police - law enforcement
- crime fighting
- carried out by uniformed general officers
- fairly limited
Policing in the community

being present at the neighborhood level
Policing of the community

task orientation
Policing by the community

community participates in policing process
Policing for the community

community interests recognised and responded to
Traditional policing model
- more powerful groups have more influence
- community is passive
Community policing model
- co-participation
- use of media as a too for advertising campaigns
- recruitment of women
- voices of minorities heard
Discretion can be used in the following... (police context)
- legislation
- police powers
- budgets
- media campaigns on specific areas of criminal justice
Discretion can be used in the following... (organisational)
- specific offences being policed
- allocation of resources
- groups or demographics targeted
Discretion can be used in the following... (Individual)
- offences investigated
- is the evidence sufficient to press charges?
- decision about which charges are laid
- way in which offender is treated (formally or informally?)
Why are police so discretionary?
- law is only a guide and is open situational interpretation
- a consequence of limited resources
- essential for reasons of justice and equity
types of intervention for juvenile justice
- informal caution
- formal caution
- interrogation
- search
- summons
- arrest
- fingerprinting
- custody
informal caution
- issued in a casual manner at the scene
- does not result in official record

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CRIM1019 chapter 1-3

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study cards for criminal justice at uq

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2010-11-08T01:57:10Z

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