{"id":24065,"date":"2021-07-26T20:47:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/26\/in-the-following-scenario-you-will-act-in-the-role-of-a-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T20:47:17","slug":"in-the-following-scenario-you-will-act-in-the-role-of-a-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/26\/in-the-following-scenario-you-will-act-in-the-role-of-a-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"In the following scenario, you will act in the role of a police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the following scenario, you will act in the role of a police officer who is dealing with a juvenile. This juvenile is out past curfew. Curfew violations are a city ordinance, and police officers may make an arrest in this situation or decide to handle the offense less formally. <br \/>What factors would contribute to your exercising discretion in this scenario? <br \/>According to rational choice theory, individuals consciously weigh the risk and reward of an action before they break the law. If you subscribe to rational choice theory, would there be a reason to use discretion in this circumstance? <br \/>In understanding conflict theory, discuss how this impacts the officer\u2019s decision to arrest or not arrest individuals based on social class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the following scenario, you will act in the role of a police officer who is dealing with a juvenile. This juvenile is out past curfew. Curfew violations are a city ordinance, and police officers may make an arrest in this situation or decide to handle the offense less formally. What factors would contribute to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-24065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}