CRIJ 4365 Midterm| Ques ons and answers Updated
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What is Bounded Ra onality?
Act ra onally, but do so in a limited fashion, a er taking into considera on of our culture
heritage.
What does Cultural Heritage mean?
Incudes givens way of ac ng to produce predictable kinds of reac ons in other people, in ways
people think through problems, like thinking of right and wrong, and how to make gestures
used throughout people's early life.
What is Informal Organiza on?
In order accomplish day-to-day tasks police officers developed cliques of communica on, both
ver cally and horizontally.
Those that made up these cliques develop informal rules to ge+ng along leading to a inefficient
bureaucracy.
What is Nega ve Concept of Police Culture?
Popular in the media to look at examples of police wrongdoings and seek local organiza onal
culture as an example.
What are Cranks no ons of culture?
First is people have ways of thinking about problems that make se se out of their lives.
Second includes behaviors that are learned as right ways of ac ng.
Third culture has material elements like that weapons they carry.
Fourth is culture carries a social structural component.
Fi h culture is always in the process of being created and modified.
What is Value-Based Decision-Making?
Is the values officers have coming from their cultural se+ng, which are sharpened and fine-
tuned in their training for police work and the experiences they encounter to make crucial
decisions.
What is the Noble Cause?
, The moral commitment to make the world a safer place to live, its ge+ng the bad guys off the
street.
And about an officer's conduct in day-to-day police work.
Is also fundamentally ed to the moral nature of police work.
What is the meaning of the tower?
That the police are willing to place their lives on the line for strangers.
What is Stanford Prison Experiment?
Was designed by Philip Zimbardo to measure the effect of situa onal factors on individuals.
What is Abu Ghraib?
A prison complex taken over by U.S. troops during the occupa on of Iraq where soldiers were
abusing and torturing detained prisoners.
What is the Bri sh Broadcas ng Company (BBC) Prison Study?
Intended to be a follow-up to the Stanford Prison Experiment
Where a surprising finding was that the par cipants who originally opposed inequality would
become more authoritarian as the group failed to func on effec vely.
Having a need for a strong leader to emerge.
What is Van Maanen "The *******"?
A study that looked into value-based decision-making. Including why some mes police officers
end confronta ons violently.
What are Just Means?
Are means used to achieve ends should conform to the broad considera ons of human values,
par cularly as those values are embodied in legal and administra ve due process.
What is the "Dirty Harry" problem?
Is when should an officer commit a dirty act to achieve a good end?
This problem is also at the core of the police role.
What are Means-ends Conflicts?
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What is Bounded Ra onality?
Act ra onally, but do so in a limited fashion, a er taking into considera on of our culture
heritage.
What does Cultural Heritage mean?
Incudes givens way of ac ng to produce predictable kinds of reac ons in other people, in ways
people think through problems, like thinking of right and wrong, and how to make gestures
used throughout people's early life.
What is Informal Organiza on?
In order accomplish day-to-day tasks police officers developed cliques of communica on, both
ver cally and horizontally.
Those that made up these cliques develop informal rules to ge+ng along leading to a inefficient
bureaucracy.
What is Nega ve Concept of Police Culture?
Popular in the media to look at examples of police wrongdoings and seek local organiza onal
culture as an example.
What are Cranks no ons of culture?
First is people have ways of thinking about problems that make se se out of their lives.
Second includes behaviors that are learned as right ways of ac ng.
Third culture has material elements like that weapons they carry.
Fourth is culture carries a social structural component.
Fi h culture is always in the process of being created and modified.
What is Value-Based Decision-Making?
Is the values officers have coming from their cultural se+ng, which are sharpened and fine-
tuned in their training for police work and the experiences they encounter to make crucial
decisions.
What is the Noble Cause?
, The moral commitment to make the world a safer place to live, its ge+ng the bad guys off the
street.
And about an officer's conduct in day-to-day police work.
Is also fundamentally ed to the moral nature of police work.
What is the meaning of the tower?
That the police are willing to place their lives on the line for strangers.
What is Stanford Prison Experiment?
Was designed by Philip Zimbardo to measure the effect of situa onal factors on individuals.
What is Abu Ghraib?
A prison complex taken over by U.S. troops during the occupa on of Iraq where soldiers were
abusing and torturing detained prisoners.
What is the Bri sh Broadcas ng Company (BBC) Prison Study?
Intended to be a follow-up to the Stanford Prison Experiment
Where a surprising finding was that the par cipants who originally opposed inequality would
become more authoritarian as the group failed to func on effec vely.
Having a need for a strong leader to emerge.
What is Van Maanen "The *******"?
A study that looked into value-based decision-making. Including why some mes police officers
end confronta ons violently.
What are Just Means?
Are means used to achieve ends should conform to the broad considera ons of human values,
par cularly as those values are embodied in legal and administra ve due process.
What is the "Dirty Harry" problem?
Is when should an officer commit a dirty act to achieve a good end?
This problem is also at the core of the police role.
What are Means-ends Conflicts?
