Deck 8: Police Organizations

Question 1

Which of the following is a ministerial public service agency?

A) enforcement guild
B) selective legalistic
C) peace agency
D) none of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Cordner concludes which of the following organizational structures is appropriate if policing is done in a ministerial style?

A) organic
B) mechanistic
C) heuristic
D) none of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following is a ministerial law enforcement agency?

A) peace agency
B) watchman
C) enforcement guild
D) selective legalistic

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Peace agency police departments value most highly which transitive element of the organizational goal?

A) labor relations
B) public relations
C) law enforcement
D) peacekeeping

Question 5

Which of the following is a discretionary peacekeeping agency?

A) peace agency
B) selective legalistic
C) watchman
D) enforcement guild

Question 6

Which of the following police organizational activities are transitive?

A) peacekeeping
B) public service
C) public relations
D) both A and B

Question 7

Which of the following is a discretionary law enforcement agency?

A) peace agency
B) selective legalistic
C) enforcement guild
D) watchman

Question 8

Organic forms of police organizations support police officer discretion.

Question 9

Which of the following is true?

A) organizations are naturally occurring
B) organizations are created to achieve goals
C) both are true
D) neither is true

Question 10

Generally speaking, within an industry like policing there would be agreement regarding priorities given to each element of the organizational goal.

Question 11

An organization can be considered successful if it minimally satisfies most of the elements of the constraint set (the organizational goal).

Question 12

The police methodology appropriate when there is sufficient knowledge to permit direction of officers is authoritative.

Question 13

Blau and Scott identified several organizational constituencies. Which of the following were not identified by Blau and Scott?

A) owners
B) the public at large
C) the legal community
D) all of the above

Question 14

Langworthy concludes which of the following organizational structures is appropriate if policing is done in a discretionary style?

A) mechanistic
B) organic
C) heuristic
D) none of the above

Question 15

Mazerolle and Ransley identify a growing tendency for police agencies to encourage or force others to solve crime problems. They call this:

A) problem solving
B) third- party policing
C) partnership policing
D) situational crime prevention

Question 16

Adequacy of the knowledge base conditions the appropriateness of police methods. Which police methodology is appropriate when knowledge is not sufficient to permit direction of officers?

A) ministerial
B) discretionary
C) authoritative
D) none of the above

Question 17

Which elements of the organizational goal are concerned with organizational maintenance?

A) reflexive
B) product
C) transitive
D) none of the above

Question 18

Which of the following police organizational activities are reflexive?

A) peacekeeping
B) public service
C) public relations
D) both A and B

Question 19

Langworthy concludes that ministerial policing is appropriate with a mechanistic style of police organization.

Question 20

Which elements of the organizational goal are concerned with the intended environmental impact of an organization?

A) transitive
B) product
C) reflexive
D) all of the above

Question 21

Team policing police departments value most highly the law enforcement transitive element of the organizational goal.

Question 22

Successful organizations, even in the same industry take many different forms.

Question 23

If knowledge is lacking, the appropriate organizational structure is heuristic.

Question 24

When we refer to the adequacy of the knowledge base our focus is on the scientific knowledge base.

Question 25

Selective legalistic style police departments value most highly value the law enforcement transitive element of the organizational goal.

Question 26

Enforcement guild police departments value most highly the public service transitive element of the organizational goal.

Question 27

Police organizations enforce the laws in the same way.

Question 28

Burns and Stalker describe a hierarchically tall, differentiated, and rule directed organization as organic.

Question 29

If knowledge is sufficient the appropriate organizational structure is mechanistic.

Question 30

Watchman style police departments value most highly the peace keeping transitive element of the organizational goal.