Chapter 4 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Borh
Earliest system of policing
Frankpledge
System of policing that replaced borh(12 or older)
Tything or tithing
Replaced borh and a group of all boys or men
Hundred
Ten tythings grouped together for police purposes
Parish constable
Policing agent who operate in smaller towns(unpaid, part time, and unarmed)
Shire reeves
Precursors to sheriffs
Sheriffs
Early policing agents who were charged to pursue crimes
Watchmen
Used to protect property in America
Thief takers
Men hired by victims to capture offenders
Metropolitan police act of 1829
Made by Sir Robert Peel, beginning of modern policing
Bobbies
Officers in Britain
Peelers
Officers in Ireland
Peelian Principles
List that describes Peels philosophy of an ethical police force
Vigilantes
Self appointed distributors of justice
Slave patrol
Policing group 3-6 men who brought slaves back to owners
Fugitive slave law of 1850
Passed by congress to say that since slaves were growing we needed slave patrols
Third degree
Early method of police officers that included brutalizing people to gather info
Modus operandi
A system for solving crimes
Police matron
Women police officers
Literacy tests
Tests used to deny voting
Covered jurisdictions
Places must submit proposed voting changes to US DOJ
Omnibus crime control and safe streets act of 1968
An act that established agencies and rules dealing with crime