Criminal Justice in the Community Individual 7 Week 7: Week Seven - Individual Work ONLY 300 WORDS Instructional Objectives for this activity: ? Determine acceptable and unacceptable police officer behavior. ? Compare and contrast ideologies, ethics and moral behavior of the police. People can become afraid of crime even when they are not direct victims. The media can have a heavy influence on this. For example, people will see that a murder took place within a certain community. The response by some who see the report on television might be to install an alarm system or put bars on their windows. Please answer the following questions: Why is fear of crime so pervasive? Why does it seem to exist even when there is no logical reason for it? How can the police deal with something as amorphous as this? Please remember that your homework assignment should be written in your own words. You cannot simply find an article and cut and paste it and then submit it as your assignment. You should use scholarly resources to support your opinion, however citing your work and giving authors appropriate credit is very important. If an idea is not your own, you must cite your work – this includes paraphrasing. (Please refer to the school's plagiarism policy for more information). Furthermore, all citations and references need to be in APA format. WRITING TIP: If you have a scholarly resource listed in your references, then that resource needs to be also cited somewhere in the body of the paper. If you have a citation in the body of the paper, then that means it also needs to be listed in your references. UNACCEPTABLE RESOURCES: The following resources should not be used in your academic careers. These sources allow any user to add or change information, which means they are not credible or scholarly. Typically, you should avoid using websites that end in .com; you should be using websites that are .org or .edu. This is not an extensive list, but these are...
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