How statutory classification of crime vary with time and place

How statutory classification of crime vary with time and place

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Police leadership is part of law enforcement profession which must possess different values of respect, integrity, professionalism, kindness, compassion, bravery, justice and honesty. Different organizations can therefore come together in order to enable all the supervisors and police officers to achieve the mission statement and the core values. These values are very important as they help the officers with ethical behavior and informative ethical decisions. Police officers strain in order to gain public trust because every person watches every move they make to judge them. Stranger, friends, neighbors and relatives ensure that they watch police officers even when they are off duty. Police officers are highly scrutinized because they are cynical and they are out to catch all the offenders. They are more watched than any other profession (Douglas et al. 2013). Because of this, law enforcement officers ensure that they remain the role models hoping for the best each and every day.

Most of police officers remain truly good and dedicated to their duty because they serve as an example to other people. They serve in ethical manner as they are aware that they serve the nation. It is unfortunately, the good deeds law enforcement do each and every day go unpublished and unrecognized because the society is always looking for the negative acts from them. Bad news from the law enforcement carries the biggest market compared to the good news. Police always act ethically because they are aware that any disreputable act from unprofessional officer can impact so much negatively to the entire profession (Smith et al. 2015). Law enforcement officers apply the code of ethics everywhere because they know that everything they do when in office can affect the agency, the profession and the state at large. Law enforcement authorities and leaders therefore protect not only themselves but also the public and State at large. Ethics is always based on societal values and the police officers choose to do the right thing.

Statutory classification of crimes varies from time to time and from place to place. In united state, statutory classifications of crimes are not limited to any current statistics but they are focused on the new emerging crime issues in the streets (Smith et al, 2015). There has always been set objectives of statutory classification of crime which has to change according to time and space. The reason as to why statutory classification of crime change with time and place is to statistic purposes in order to provide current data concerning the extent of crime as well as the structure. Maintenance of consistent conceptualization and adoption of basis of the new classification is also important.

The classification should as well follow the greatest extent possible approach in order to cater the new century agendas and crime statistics (Ormerod, & Laird, 2018). The greatest approach must be attained during crime classification in so that flexibility can be exercised during crime coverage and content. In addition, emerging crime types, violent or the street crimes are also considered when statutory classification of crimes is done by law enforcement officers. The United States statutory crime classification was done following language of statutory and it is known to change with the jurisdiction. It is of no doubt that crimes change with time and place therefore there is need of statutory classification of crimes to cater different types and shapes of crime in the State.

In conclusion, we have discussed ethical behaviors of police officers and how they strive to protect not only themselves but also the agency and the public image. We should also embrace their good deeds and stop being so hard on police officers. The paper has also discussed the reasons of how statutory classification of crimes change according to time and place.

References

Douglas, J., Burgess, A. W., Burgess, A. G., & Ressler, R. K. (2013). Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crime. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Ormerod, D., & Laird, K. (2018). Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod’s Criminal Law. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Smith, J. C., Laird, K., Ormerod, D., & Hogan, B. (2015). Smith and Hogan’s Criminal Law. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA.