Examples of law enforcement in the following topics:
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- The two major methods for collecting crime data are law enforcement reports and victimization statistical surveys.
- The U.S. has no comprehensive infrastructure to monitor crime trends and report the information to related parties, such as law enforcement.
- First, they often use statistics from law enforcement organizations.
- These statistics are normally readily available and are generally reliable in terms of identifying what crime is being dealt with by law enforcement organizations, as they are gathered by law enforcement officers in the course of their duties, and are often extracted directly from law enforcement computer systems.
- Evaluate U.S. crime statistics and the various ways law enforcement officials gather them
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- In an attempt to provide general descriptions that may facilitate the job of law enforcement officers seeking to apprehend suspects, the FBI employs the term "race" to summarize the general appearance (skin color, hair texture, eye shape, and other such easily noticed characteristics) of individuals whom they are attempting to apprehend.
- From the perspective of law enforcement officers, it is generally more important to arrive at a description that will readily suggest the general appearance of an individual than to make a scientifically valid categorization by DNA or other such means.
- Racial profiling refers to the use of an individual's race or ethnicity by law enforcement personnel as a key factor in deciding whether to engage in enforcement (e.g. make a traffic stop or arrest).
- Many consider de facto racial profiling an example of institutional racism in law enforcement.
- Paraphrase the legal definition of race and how it is used in government and law enforcement in the U.S., the U.K., and France
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- The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder.
- In the United States, concern over the power of the police has increasingly weighed upon law enforcement agencies, courts, and legislatures at every level of government since the 1960s.
- The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder.
- Specialized units exist within many law enforcement organizations for dealing with particular types of crime, such as traffic law enforcement and crash investigation, homicide, or fraud.
- In the United States, concern over such issues has increasingly weighed upon law enforcement agencies, courts, and legislatures at every level of government since the 1960s.
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- Formal means of social control are generally state-determined, through the creation of laws and their enforcement.
- Formal means of social control are the means of social control exercised by the government and other organizations who use law enforcement mechanisms and sanctions such as fines and imprisonment to enact social control.
- The mechanisms utilized by the state as means of formal social control span the gamut from the death penalty to curfew laws.
- From a legal perspective, sanctions are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or rules and regulations.
- Within the civil law context, sanctions are usually monetary fines.
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- The American criminal justice system consists of three main parts: (1) enforcement; (2) adjudication; and (3) corrections.
- These distinct agencies are the principal means of maintaining the rule of law within society.
- The first contact an offender has with the criminal justice system is usually with law enforcement, most often the police who investigate a suspected violation and make an arrest.
- The commission advocated a "systems" approach to criminal justice, with improved coordination among law enforcement, courts, and correctional agencies.
- Police officers are the most visible members of the law enforcement branch of the criminal justice system, and are charged with maintaining social order by arresting offenders who violate the law.
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- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- This approach considers the complex realities surrounding the concept of crime and seeks to understand how changing social, political, psychological, and economic conditions may affect changing definitions of crime and the form of the legal, law-enforcement, and penal responses made by society.
- For example: as cultures change and the political environment shifts, societies may criminalize or decriminalize certain behaviors, which directly affects the statistical crime rates, influences the allocation of resources for the enforcement of laws, and re-influences the general public opinion.
- All such adjustments to crime statistics, together with the experience of people in their everyday lives, shape attitudes on the extent to which the state should use law or social engineering to enforce or encourage any particular social norm.
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- Not until 1967 were laws outlawing interracial marriage abolished in the United States.
- These laws were referred to as miscegenation laws (miscegenation means "mixing races").
- When they moved to Virginia shortly after their wedding, law enforcement decided to prosecute them, breaking into their home in the middle of the night and carrying them off to jail.
- Virginia, which abolished miscegenation laws in the U.S.
- Still as late as 2002, close to 10% of people in the U.S. favored a law prohibiting interracial marriage.
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- For example, schoolmates may enforce gender norms by ridiculing boys who undertake actions considered feminine, such as writing poetry or dancing.
- Social control may be enforced using informal sanctions, which may include shame, ridicule, sarcasm, criticism and disapproval.
- For example, schoolmates may enforce gender norms by ridiculing boys who undertake actions considered feminine, such as writing poetry or dancing.
- Social control may also be enforced using formal sanctions.
- Government and organizations use law enforcement mechanisms and other formal sanctions, such as fines and imprisonment.
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- A bureaucracy is an organization of non-elected officials who implements the rules, laws, and functions of their institution.
- The competition is "aimed at identifying innovative suggestions for reducing unnecessary bureaucracy stemming from European law".
- Red tape can also include "filing and certification requirements, reporting, investigation, inspection and enforcement practices, and procedures".
- As opposed to bureaucrats carrying out "desk jobs," street-level bureaucracy is the subset of a public agency or government institution containing the individuals who carry out and enforce the actions required by laws and public policies.
- Street-level bureaucracy is accompanied by the idea that these individuals vary the extents to which they enforce the rules and laws assigned to them.
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- An example of an explicit social norm is a law, such as a law that prohibits alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21.
- Explicit norms are often enforced by formal sanctions.
- Implicit norms are usually enforced by informal sanctions.
- One form of norm adoption is the formal method, where norms are written down and formally adopted (e.g., laws, legislation, club rules).
- Norms may be enforced through informal sanctions, such as derision, or formal sanctions, such as arrest.