[SOC 170] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (57 pages long!)

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: Sociology - A&S
• Course: SOC 170
• Professor: Brewer James

Document Summary

First responders are also functioning emts as well. Look at the city with the first official police department- it"s in the book and will be on the test. In the 1930s the great depression sparked the reform era of policing where people got fed up with the patronage system of corruption and pushed for change. Homicides are often solved through connections and relationships that exist among police officers, not with dna. In community policing the police officers need to somewhat also take on the role of a social worker. The modernization of the american police: professionalism, administrative reforms, turmoil in the 1960s, the challenges of antiterrorism, technology. Goal of many police departments is to have the utmost highest accreditations. Riots in the 1960s discouraged and overworked police officer: civil rights movement (mlk, vietnam war. Antiterrorism brings new challenges to the fbi and dhs.