Chapters 5 and 6 from Introduction to Criminal Justice Practive and Process 5th edition by Kenneth J. Peak and Tamara D. Herold

Chapter 5

1. What were the four major police-related offices and their functions during the early English and colonial periods?

2. What are the three eras of local policing, what were August Vollmer’s contributions to policing’s reform era, and what primary problems of the two initial eras led to the development of the current community era?

3. What are the major agencies within the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, and what are their primary functions?

4. What functions do the Central Intelligence Agency and the Internal Revenue Service perform.

5. How does INTERPOL function, and what are it primary contributions to crime fighting?

Chapter 6

6. What ideal traits are sought among those persons wishing to enter policing?

7. What are the methods and concepts of the FTO concept?

8. What is meant by the working personality, how was the concept developed, and how does it function?

9. What are the four basic tasks of the police?

10. What are the primary styles of policing?