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What is the carding issue? What does it address?

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  • the carding issue is the fact that people are being stopped on personal factors
  • > there is no supporting intelligence or info

-it can be on the basis of stereotyped images of certain groups

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What are the four components of procedural justice

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1) Participation or Voice
- >one’s side of the story has been considered when decision are made

2) Neutrality
- >no personal biases

3) Conveying trustworthy motives
- >showing care and concern for citizens’ well being

4) Dignity
- >treatment with respect and upholding citizens rights

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What is Tom Tyler’s stance on teachable moments

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  • every encounter the public has with the police should be treated as a socialising experience
  • > it either builds or undermines legitimacy
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Legitimacy based model

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Legitimacy

  • > lawfulness
  • > distributed justice
  • > procedural justice
  • > effectiveness
  • specifically it looks at the variation with which individuals feel the need to comply with the law
  • > less likely to comply with the law means that the person will be more likely to break them
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Who will accept police decisions?

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  • those who got good quality of treatment will accept the most
  • then quality of decision making ranks second
  • third is whether the favoured outcome is achieved
  • last is the distributive justice factor
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What is distributive justice

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-It is the belief that the decision or outcomes the police receive are fair

  • so that included
  • > fair pay
  • > promotion
  • > transfers
  • > duty assignment
  • > disciplinary action
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What does the social disorganization theory define

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  • it defines the inability of a community structure to:
  • > realize common values of its residents
  • > inability to maintain effective social controls
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What is the main idea that the social disorganization theory promotes

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  • it promotes the idea that location matters
  • > person’s residential location shapes whether that person will become involved in illegal activities
  • residential location is as significant as the person’s individual characteristics
  • > youth from disadvantaged neighbourhoods participate in a subculture which approves of delinquency
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What are the four conclusions of the Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers article

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1) black middle class neighbourhoods have higher poverty rates than white middle class neighbourhoods
- >they are closer to the poverty areas

2) High proportion of low-income residents
- >unstable middle class
- >thus crime is an attractive option to minority of residents within the neighbourhood

3) Residents in Groveland have formed strong primary and institutional ties
- >this is due to home ownership and residential stability

4)These primary and institutional ties thwart efforts to totally rid neighbourhoods of gangs and drugs.