Test Bank Chapter 2 The Origins And Evolution Of Police Work

CHAPTER 2: THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF POLICE WORK

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Where did the first use of a non-military unit to maintain order emerge?

a. Roman Empire

b. France

c. Greece

d. England

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2. Suppose that you were a 40-year-old male living in England prior to 1066 and you were part of a group comprising 10 families. What was the name of the group to which you belonged?

a. tenthly

b. tything

c. intercluster

d. aggregation

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3. What title were tythingmen given under Henry III’s reign?

a. tenthman

b. police officer

c. centuryman

d. constable

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4. Which piece of government legislation was responsible for making policing a community responsibility in England?

a. Statute of London

b. Statute of Winchester

c. Justice of the Peace Act

d. Statute of the Frankpledge Act

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5. Suppose that you were part of England’s first organized police body as a paid police constable in the mid-1700s in England and reported to a justice of the peace. What was the name of the organization you belonged to?

a. Bow Street Runners

b. Police Street Runners

c. Peeler Street Runners

d. Bobby Street Runners

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6. What were the members of Sir Robert Peel’s full-time police force called?

a. “Robbies”

b. “Peelies”

c. “Bobbies”

d. “Runners”

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7. Which piece of government legislation was responsible for establishing a full-time, unarmed police force in London, England?

a. Civic Police Act

b. Citizen Police Act

c. Municipal Police Act

d. Metropolitan Police Act

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8. Peel’s principles of policing are considered the basis of which of the following?

a. community policing

b. militarized policing

c. centralized policing

d. authoritarian policing

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9. When did police constables appear in Upper Canada (now Ontario)?

a. late 1700s

b. late 1800s

c. early 1700s

d. early 1800s

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10. Which of the following individuals received Canada’s first traffic violation ticket?

a. George Weiss

b. Henry Fielding

c. Henry Franklin

d. George Withrow

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11. During the early 1800s in Canada, what type of approach did governments take in response to controlling crime?

a. reactive

b. proactive

c. laissez-faire

d. reserved

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12. Ethel Smith was a female officer with the Winnipeg Police during the 1950s. How would her pay have compared to that of a male officer?

a. she would be paid more

b. she would be paid the same

c. she would be paid less

d. women held volunteer positions only

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13. What were the predecessors of the modern-day RCMP called?

a. Mounted Police

b. North-East Mounted Police

c. Royal Mounted Police

d. North-West Mounted Police

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14. During which period did police forces emerge in Western Canada?

a. mid to late 1700s

b. early to mid 1800s

c. mid to late 1800s

d. early to mid 1900s

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15. Which well-known Canadian company played a major role during the early days of policing Canada’s west?

a. Hudson’s Fur Company

b. Hudson’s Bay Company

c. Thunder Bay Fur Company

d. Thunder Bay Company

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16. John Greggory, a resident of Yukon Territory in 1880, was involved in a criminal matter. His case would be handled through a mechanism used at the time to maintain order. What was this mechanism called?

a. “miner’s meetings”

b. “Yukon order”

c. “Klondike justice”

d. “gold rush law”

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17. Suppose that as a Canadian university student in the 1960s you participated in left-wing student societies and demonstrations. Which police service could have been targeting you for surveillance activities?

a. Sûreté du Québec

b. Ontario Provincial Police

c. Royal Canadian Mounted Police

d. British Columbia Provincial Police

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18. Imagine you have just arrived at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport from a recent vacation in the United States. You interact with Canadian customs agents shortly after arriving, you speak with officers from both the Peel Regional Police Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as you wait at the baggage claim, and you walk past a Group 4 Securitas security guard patrolling the parking lot where you left your car. What does this experience exemplify about changes in Canadian policing arrangements as discussed by Griffiths?

a. pluralization of policing

b. naturalization of policing

c. urbanization of police work

d. globalization of police work

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19. While attending a concert at your local stadium, you notice that stadium-hired officers and your local police service are conducting security for the event. What is this practice called?

a. joint policing

b. shared policing

c. cooperative policing

d. collaborative policing

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20. Imagine an 18-year-old man is arrested and detained in police lock-up and dies of injuries sustained during the arrest. The local community is outraged and organizes protests against the local police—accused of using excessive force in times past—that soon turn into violent riots. The police respond with their newly acquired armoured vehicles and place snipers on the roofs of the buildings surrounding the location of the riots. What do these actions exemplify?

a. militarization of the police

b. nationalization of the police

c. proliferation of armed forces

d. assimilation of armed forces

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TRUE/FALSE

1. The system of self-policing that existed in the Roman Empire was called “kin police.”

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2. During his reign in England, Alfred the Great instituted the frankpledge system.

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3. Sir Robert Peel created the Bow Street Runners during the mid-1700s.

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4. Early Canadian police forces’ mandates dictated, among other things, that they must address conflicts among ethnic groups, labourers, and employers.

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5. Early municipal police forces in Canada were notoriously corrupt.

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6. After it was founded in 1873, the North-West Mounted Police was a military-style police force.

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7. During World War I, the federal government and the RCMP viewed homosexuals as a national security risk.

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8. Although the pluralization of policing was a popular trend in the 1950s, it is no longer seen as commonplace.

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9. An Ontario First Nations community refers to police officers as “walking men” in Ojibwa because they are so often out of their patrol cars.

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10. The use of SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) deployments in Canada has decreased significantly since 1980.

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SHORT ANSWER

1. Describe the codification of laws and discuss how this impacted the development of early policing.

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2. Describe the contribution Sir Robert Peel made to the field of policing.

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3. Discuss the emergence of women in policing in Canada.

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4. Define “tiered policing,” “collaborative policing,” and “pluralization of policing.” List one benefit and one limitation of the pluralization of policing.

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5. List and describe the three 20th-century technological innovations that changed the delivery of police services. In your opinion, have police services come to rely too heavily on technology? Explain your answer.

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