CMY2602- ASSIGNMENTS
ELABORATION EXAM QUESTIONS
ANS ANSWERS
Give examples of a traffic officer's function under each of these five
categories. - ANSWER Give examples of the traffic officer's function under each of these five categories.
1 - Administrative functions
2- Community services
3- Preventative policing
4- Repressive (or reactive) policing
5- Miscellaneous functions
Hold a discussion with fellow learners about their feelings regarding the additional duties of traffic
officers. - ANSWER Students can deliberate on the aspect of visibility ± the more visible officers are the
more it can act as a deterrent for potential violators of road traffic offences. This justifies the additional
duties of traffic officers.
Describe preventative and repressive policing in your own words. - ANSWER Preventative policing refers
to all the activities before a traffic offence is committed. Repressive policing refers to crime investigation
and therefore any activity that takes place after the offence was committed.
Discuss the meaning of proactive in your own words and say what the role of proactive units in law
enforcement will be. - ANSWER Proactive and preventative policing is the same thing ± to be proactive
means that actions should be taken before an offence is committed.
Explain why the saturation enforcement units can be considered as
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, proactive units. - ANSWER Saturation enforcement refers to the "flooding'' of an area with traffic officials
in order to create the impression that the police are "ever present''. The fact that potential offenders will
be deterred makes this unit a proactive unit
Kemshall (2008:7-8) is of the opinion that the identification of high risk offenders has been, and still is, a
problem. This, in the author's opinion, is due to three major issues. Identify these: - ANSWER (+)
Designing and implementing a risk assessment tool capable of reliably and consistently identifying high
risk offenders
(+) Differing interpretations of what constitutes ``high risk'' among practitioners and sentencers
(+) Establishing sufficient criteria and evidence upon which to base judgements about the future
"This perspective of risk has resulted in a constant developing in the pursuit of reliable risk assessment
tools to identify dangerous offenders, the 'critical few' or high risk offenders.'' Which perspective or
theoretical approach the above statement forms part of... - ANSWER Criminological and legal approaches
Complete the sentence with the correct term:
... assessments and treatments often run parallel to psychological approaches, targeted at those high risk
offenders deemed to have a mental illness. - ANSWER Psychiatric
What does Kemshall (2008:40) refer to as "a mechanism of social regulation in which individuals are
made responsible for their own actions, including their own risks, and for their own self-risk
management''? - ANSWER Responsibilisation
Complete the following statement correctly by choosing the correct term: According to the social
construction approach the __________ can "champion'' causes, validate causes and experiences,
demonise particular groups and popularise new fears, risk and dangers. - ANSWER media
A sex offender about to be released into the community would require a certain level of risk
management, namely: - ANSWER Level 3
COSA is a formal community partnership based upon which approach? - ANSWER Rehabilitative
Risk factors, such as employment, substance abuse and criminal associates are representative of ... -
ANSWER dynamic factors
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ELABORATION EXAM QUESTIONS
ANS ANSWERS
Give examples of a traffic officer's function under each of these five
categories. - ANSWER Give examples of the traffic officer's function under each of these five categories.
1 - Administrative functions
2- Community services
3- Preventative policing
4- Repressive (or reactive) policing
5- Miscellaneous functions
Hold a discussion with fellow learners about their feelings regarding the additional duties of traffic
officers. - ANSWER Students can deliberate on the aspect of visibility ± the more visible officers are the
more it can act as a deterrent for potential violators of road traffic offences. This justifies the additional
duties of traffic officers.
Describe preventative and repressive policing in your own words. - ANSWER Preventative policing refers
to all the activities before a traffic offence is committed. Repressive policing refers to crime investigation
and therefore any activity that takes place after the offence was committed.
Discuss the meaning of proactive in your own words and say what the role of proactive units in law
enforcement will be. - ANSWER Proactive and preventative policing is the same thing ± to be proactive
means that actions should be taken before an offence is committed.
Explain why the saturation enforcement units can be considered as
1
, proactive units. - ANSWER Saturation enforcement refers to the "flooding'' of an area with traffic officials
in order to create the impression that the police are "ever present''. The fact that potential offenders will
be deterred makes this unit a proactive unit
Kemshall (2008:7-8) is of the opinion that the identification of high risk offenders has been, and still is, a
problem. This, in the author's opinion, is due to three major issues. Identify these: - ANSWER (+)
Designing and implementing a risk assessment tool capable of reliably and consistently identifying high
risk offenders
(+) Differing interpretations of what constitutes ``high risk'' among practitioners and sentencers
(+) Establishing sufficient criteria and evidence upon which to base judgements about the future
"This perspective of risk has resulted in a constant developing in the pursuit of reliable risk assessment
tools to identify dangerous offenders, the 'critical few' or high risk offenders.'' Which perspective or
theoretical approach the above statement forms part of... - ANSWER Criminological and legal approaches
Complete the sentence with the correct term:
... assessments and treatments often run parallel to psychological approaches, targeted at those high risk
offenders deemed to have a mental illness. - ANSWER Psychiatric
What does Kemshall (2008:40) refer to as "a mechanism of social regulation in which individuals are
made responsible for their own actions, including their own risks, and for their own self-risk
management''? - ANSWER Responsibilisation
Complete the following statement correctly by choosing the correct term: According to the social
construction approach the __________ can "champion'' causes, validate causes and experiences,
demonise particular groups and popularise new fears, risk and dangers. - ANSWER media
A sex offender about to be released into the community would require a certain level of risk
management, namely: - ANSWER Level 3
COSA is a formal community partnership based upon which approach? - ANSWER Rehabilitative
Risk factors, such as employment, substance abuse and criminal associates are representative of ... -
ANSWER dynamic factors
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