Chapter 1 Self-Check

. The issue of freedom vs. order describes how police need to ensure that personal freedom expands for every participant in a specific police-citizen encounter

. Which of the following nations has the most independent police agencies?

. Which types of variables can potentially influence the outcome of police-citizen interactions?

. Klockers believes that police can properly perform their role in most cases without having to resort to some type of coercion

. The system of policing in the United States is best described as what type of system?

. Klockers emphasizes the role of coercive force in defining police as "institutions or individuals given the right to use coercive force by the state"

. A decentralized policing system involves a system that includes many different independent police agencies.

. Which of the following is NOT one of the five primary points in the criminal justice funnel?

. The number of crimes that eventually result in a criminal arrest is known as:

. The practice of police acting on information from the public, usually about crimes that have already occurred, defines:

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