Self Check Q&A

Consider the below questions to check your understanding of topics covered in the book. Click on the question to reveal the answer.

1. Alongside what other factors did Chan suggest that professionalism had been an important component of police reform?

Answer: alongside bureaucratic measures and quasi-market approaches

2. What did Vollmer suggest ought to be required of all Chicago police recruits in order to enhance professionalism?

Answer: that they be required to complete a degree

3. How much did Weisburd and Neyroud suggest the UK government spent on medical research and on crime research?

Answer: £600 million and £2 million

4. What are the Triple-Ts that might underpin scientific models of policing?

Answer: targeting, testing and tracking

5. Which police services withdrew plans to consider privatising police services in the aftermath of problems relating to policing the London 2012 Olympics?

Answer: Surrey and West Midlands police

6. What role might Police and Crime Commissioners play in the development of pluralism?

Answer: through procuring services from a range of providers and encouraging police services to engage with a plurality of agencies

7. What proportion of police funding was cut in the 2010 government spending review?

Answer: 20 per cent

8. What did Field suggest had a stronger impact on offending: unemployment rates of patterns of consumption?

Answer: patterns of consumption

9. The chief of which service suggested that global warming would be a major challenge for police?

Answer: the Australian Federal Police

10. How did Loader characterise government strategy to refocus police work?

Answer: as an effort to ‘release the police’s inner crime-fighter