Deck 4: Responding to and Preventing Crime Within a Community Policing Framework

Question 1

Granting officer's responsibility for crime and disorder at the neighbourhood level has created opportunities for a more proactive approach and for broadening the role and activities of police officers beyond merely responding to calls for service.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The National Crime Prevention Strategy is based on the principle that the surest way to reduce crime is to focus on the factors that put individuals at risk, such as family violence, school problems, and drug abuse.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

CPTED assumes that many criminal acts are the result of a cost/benefit decision by the offender, and that such offences can be prevented when there is a reasonable likelihood of apprehension followed by the possibility of incarceration.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A prominent U.S. study of child development that followed children into adulthood found that children who viewed less violent television had fewer arrests, depended less upon welfare and were more likely to complete high school than those who were exposed to more violence on television.

Question 5

The practice of public notification raises a moral dilemma, as offenders who have served their time in jail are deemed to be suitable for return to the community.

Question 6

The policing strategy that relies on patrol for the apprehension, deterrence, and incapacitation of criminal offenders is called:

A) proactive targeting strategy.
B) community service approach.
C) crime prevention.
D) team policing.

Question 7

Hold-up alarms, shootings, stabbings, auto thefts, and assaults are examples of:

A) community-initiated crime calls.
B) hard crime calls.
C) soft crime calls.
D) victim-precipitated crime calls.

Question 8

Research studies on crime attack strategies suggest that:

A) in certain situations, the numbers of police officers can reduce the levels of crime.
B) proactive police arrests, focusing on high-risk persons and offences, may reduce levels of serious violent crime.
C) police patrols directed at certain hot spots may reduce levels of crime.
D) All of the above.

Question 9

Foot patrols, bicycle patrols, team policing, and community police stations and storefronts are examples of:

A) crime prevention programs.
B) proactive targeting strategies.
C) community service approaches.
D) crime prevention strategies that do not work.

Question 10

Research studies indicate that foot patrols:

A) reduce citizens' fear of crime.
B) reduce calls for service.
C) increase patrol officers' perceptions of safety.
D) All of the above.

Question 11

Crime prevention programs that identify opportunities for criminal offences and alter these conditions in order to reduce the likelihood of crimes being committed are known as:

A) tertiary crime prevention programs.
B) secondary crime prevention programs.
C) primary crime prevention programs.
D) the broken windows approach.

Question 12

Door-to-door visits by police officers and police-community meetings are examples of:

A) police strategies that are no longer used.
B) the community service approach to crime prevention.
C) crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED).
D) increasing police legitimacy.

Question 13

The approach to crime prevention that attempts to alleviate the conditions that contribute to crime, such as poverty, poor housing, unemployment, and lack of educational opportunities, is called:

A) increasing police legitimacy.
B) tertiary crime prevention.
C) the broken windows approach.
D) crime prevention through social development.

Question 14

The type of crime displacement that involves offenders developing different strategies to commit crimes is known as:

A) geographic crime displacement.
B) temporal crime displacement.
C) target crime displacement.
D) tactical crime displacement.

Question 15

Research studies suggest that:

A) it is unclear whether Operation Identification reduces the levels of property crime.
B) Neighbourhood Watch is an effective approach to crime prevention.
C) citizen patrols may reduce property crimes and citizens' fear of crime.
D) a and c.

Question 16

The term associate with "protecting, aiding, and mobilizing members of the community in dealing with crime and disorders" is known as:

A) Tactical or directed patrol
B) Team policing
C) Community service approaches
D) Intelligence-led policing

Question 17

Police legitimacy refers to:

A) the ability of a police agency to obtain the support of the community it serves
B) the collective efforts by a police service to ensure that citizens are treated fairly, and to the initiatives taken by police to explain their role and activities through personal contact
C) the police focus on areas that produce crime and other types of disorder, seeking to identify high-risk offenders.
D) the accountability mechanisms that exist within criminal and civil legislation, ensuring the professional conduct of policing in Canada

Question 18

The police involvement in the post-sentencing and post-incarceration stages of the justice system is associated with the term:

A) repeat offender targeting
B) high risk policing
C) police-public monitoring
D) public notification

Question 19

What is the safer communities approach to crime prevention?

Question 20

What is meant by proactive targeted strategies?

Question 21

What are community service approaches to preventing crime?

Question 22

What are crime prevention programs and how do they differ from proactive targeted strategies and community service approaches?

Question 23

What is tactical or directed patrol and how is it carried out?

Question 24

Compare hard crime calls and soft crime calls.

Question 25

What is team policing and what role does it play in community policing?

Question 26

Compare primary prevention programs, secondary prevention programs, and tertiary prevention programs.

Question 27

Provide an example of a situational crime prevention program and one that seeks to prevent crime through social development.

Question 28

What is meant by increasing policing legitimacy?

Question 29

What is the broken windows approach to crime prevention?

Question 30

What is crime displacement and what are the various forms it may take?

Question 31

Why is public notification the subject of controversy?

Question 32

List and discuss the effectiveness and problems associated with tactical or directed patrol.

Question 33

What are the attributes of an effective police deployment model? List some of the key elements that police agencies should attempt to incorporate into their deployment of frontline police officers.

Question 34

Explain and discuss the issues surrounding the installation of CCTVs to reduce crime and disorder in an area of restaurants, nightclubs and parks. Who would you expect to support this initiative? Who would likely oppose CCTV's in public spaces?