Distinct Advantages Are Highlighted in the Problem-Oriented Policing Approach

question 40

Multiple Choice

Distinct advantages are highlighted in the problem-oriented policing approach. Which type of advantage involves the police becoming "crime managers"?

• A)better use of resources
• B)decentralization of decision making
• C)multi-agency approach
• D)centralization of decision making

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Definitions:

Higher-Order Conditioning

A form of learning where a stimulus is paired with a previously conditioned stimulus, causing the new stimulus to elicit the conditioned response without a direct association.

Extinction

In psychology, the process through which a conditioned response diminishes and eventually disappears as a result of the conditioned stimulus being presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Response

The learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus in classical conditioning.

Food

Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink to maintain life and growth.