Explains that police departments were developed in order to prevent or suppress mob violence?

• A. Disorder-Control Theory
• B. Crime-Control Theory
• C. Tribal Police
• D. Frankpledge System

Answer: (A)

The main idea is that policing grew out of a need to manage public order and stop mobs from turning into violence. Disorder-Control Theory specifically focuses on maintaining social order and preventing or suppressing mob violence, which matches the historical impetus behind forming modern police departments.

Crime-Control Theory, by contrast, centers on reducing crime itself, which is a broader ongoing goal but not the initial driving force behind creating urban police forces to handle crowd disruptions. The tribal police and the Frankpledge System describe older, premodern ways societies tried to keep order, rather than the development of organized police departments in urban areas aimed at preventing mobs.