Which Policing Experiment Examined the Ability of Patrol Efforts to Control

question 63

Multiple Choice

Which policing experiment examined the ability of patrol efforts to control crime and changed our understanding of policing?

• A) The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
• B) The Stanford Prison Experiment
• C) The Pizzaro Police and Homicide Study
• D) The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Arrest Experiment

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Definitions:

Common Goal

A shared objective or aim among members of a group.

Groupthink

A phenomenon whereby a group makes faulty decisions because of group pressures, leading to a degradation of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment.

Social Facilitation

The tendency for people to perform differently when in the presence of others than when alone, often improving on simple or well-rehearsed tasks.

Self-Disclosure

Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others.