Chermak and Weiss Recommended: "Law Enforcement Agencies Should Implement and Devise

question 52

Multiple Choice

Chermak and Weiss recommended: "Law enforcement agencies should implement and devise broad marketing strategies to increase public awareness and involvement in community policing activities." Which of the following was not one of their recommendations?

• A)Increase the amount of personnel and monetary resources to more effectively market community policing.
• B)Broaden the training curriculum to include a discussion of more effective ways to market community policing.
• C)Tell their stories of police contact to at least three other people.
• D)Conduct research that can effectively evaluate whether implementing a broad marketing strategy is effective.

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Definitions:

Well-Organized Narratives

Stories or accounts that are structured in a coherent and logical manner, making them easy to follow and understand.

Habituation Paradigm

A research technique that takes advantage of a baby’s tendency to orient to new stimulation and to habituate to repeated or old stimulation. Once an infant habituates to one stimulus a new stimulus can be presented. The baby’s reorienting to the new stimulus (or failure to do so) reveals whether or not she perceives or notices the differences between the stimuli.

Sensorimotor Period

A stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, from birth to about 2 years of age, where infants learn about the world through their sensory and motor interactions.