How Well Do You Understand Community Policing Flashcards

The condition of being safe from harm or threats, usually understood as ‘freedom from fear’, implying physical harm.

The role of the police in the enforcement of criminal law.

A style of policing in which a constant police presence in the community seeks to build trust and cooperation with the public.

The theory that minor offences (broken windows) that are not speedily dealt with advertise that an area is not cared for and so lead to more, and more serious, offences.

A form of racism that operates through the culture or procedural rules of an organization, as distinct from personal prejudice.

A state that relies on a system of arbitrary and indiscriminate policing in which civil liberties are routinely abused.

A popular uprising against the established order, usually (unlike a revolution) aimed at replacing rulers, rather than the political system itself.

Conditions in which the mutual survival and safety of states is secured through measures taken to prevent or punish aggression, usually within a rule-governed international order.

An approach to politics based on the assumption that the pursuit of power is the principal human goal; the term is sometimes used descriptively.

Greater concern with one’s own interests or well-being, or selfishness; the belief that one’s own interests are morally superior to those of others.

Foreign policy goals, objectives or policy preferences that supposedly benefit a society as a whole (the foreign policy equivalent of the ‘public interest’).

Conditions in which the survival and safety of a particular nation or state is secured, usually through the build-up of military capacity to deter aggression.

A condition in which no one state predominates over others, tending to create general equilibrium and curb the hegemonic ambitions of states.

A war that in its purpose and content meets certain ethical standards, and so is (allegedly) morally justified.

Sets of norms or rules that govern the interactions of states and non-state actors in particular issue areas.