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The document discusses various types of societies and criminal justice systems that should be discussed for a midterm activity. It lists folk-communal, urban-commercial, urban-industrial, bureaucratic, and post-modern societies. It also lists common law, civil law, socialist, and Islamic criminal justice systems. Finally, it provides several theories of comparative policing that should be discussed, such as alertness to crime theory, economic theory, opportunity theory, demographic theory, deprivation theory, modernization theory, and theory of anomie and synomie.

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Activity No 1 Midterm

The document discusses various types of societies and criminal justice systems that should be discussed for a midterm activity. It lists folk-communal, urban-commercial, urban-industrial, bureaucratic, and post-modern societies. It also lists common law, civil law, socialist, and Islamic criminal justice systems. Finally, it provides several theories of comparative policing that should be discussed, such as alertness to crime theory, economic theory, opportunity theory, demographic theory, deprivation theory, modernization theory, and theory of anomie and synomie.

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ACTIVITY NO.

1 FOR MIDTERMS

1. Discuss the following types of societies:

a. folk-communal society - a frequently small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society that
functions primarily through primary contacts and is deeply rooted in its traditional ways of life

b. urban-commercial society - In contrast to folk society, a society that is typical of modern industrial
civilization and heterogeneous in cultural tradition, that

c. urban-industrial society - An industrial society is one in which mass-production technologies are used
to produce large quantities of goods in factories, and where this is the dominant mode of production
and social life organizer.

d. bureaucratic society - a group of government officials who are not elected. : a policy-making
administrative body : a government characterized by function specialization, adherence to fixed rules,
and a hierarchy of authority

e. post-modern society - refers to the state or condition of society said to exist after modernity, a
historical condition that marks the causes of modernity's demise. Jean-François Lyotard and Jean
Baudrillard are credited with coining this

2. Discuss the types of criminal justice system:

a. common law system - Courts derive these rules primarily from general principles of justice, previously
decided cases, policy considerations, and other sources, though statutes and regulations are increasingly
important sources of liability rules.

b. civil law system - civil law is the branch of the legal system that deals with people's relationships,
property, and business agreements rather than criminal activity: US shareholders are suing the company
under civil law for intentionally misleading investors.

c. socialist system - a political and economic system in which property and means of production are
jointly owned and controlled by the state or government Socialism is based on the belief that common
or public ownership of resources and means of production results in a more equal society.

d. Islamic system - An Islamic state is one that has a government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a
term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and governance theories in the Islamic
world.
3. Discuss the following theories of comparative policing:

a. alertness to crime theory - People's sensitivity to crime grows as a nation grows, so they report more
crimes to police and demand that the police

b. economic theory/ migration theory - An economic theory of immigration examines labor allocation
across countries. international limits The behavioral assumption serves as the foundation of the theory.
that people migrate because it benefits them (either psychically or financially).

c. Opportunity theory - suggests that when someone wants to commit a crime, they look for an
opportunity or a practical target. For example, if a city neighborhood lacks off-street parking, it may be a
prime target for vehicle theft.

d. demographic theory - aims to explain how population systems regulate themselves in the presence of
limited resources The analytical objects of interest in population ethics are births, deaths, and

e. deprivation theory - that people who are denied things deemed valuable in society, such as money,
justice, status, or privilege, join social movements in the hope of having their grievances addressed.

f. modernization theory - Modernization theory describes and explains the processes that lead to the
transformation of traditional or underdeveloped societies into modern societies. "Historically,
modernization is the process of change toward those types of social, economic, and political systems,"
says one of the major proponents.

g. theory of anomie and synomie - The author's "systematic speculation" synnomie/anomie model
explains social change and rising crime rates in terms of strain caused by dysfunction in the social
structure, the breakdown of social control institutions and individual bonds to them, and the clash of
opposing value systems.

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