SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Private Police, Harm Reduction, Welfarism
9 Mar 2018
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Private policing: protection of corporate spaces and elites, limited oversight and regulation of hiring/training, no right to legitimate coercion. Public policing: regulation and oversight of hiring/training/use of force, civilian oversight, legitimate coercion, politics: tough on crime, harm reduction. Changes to policing powers rise of power elites: crisis of capital (increased militarization, media: chaos and dangerous) 1850s-1940s: union strike breaking, anti-vagrancy, slave patrols, indian agents. 1950-1990: national and state level policing, urban, uprisings. Welfarism: social rights: housing, income, security, health care. Neo-conservatism: moral panics of ghetto violence; need war on crime and drugs, mass incarceration. Neo-liberalism: gentrification of inner cities: paying customers only , gated communities, private security. Both left and right have called for increased policing: rise in real crime, economic. Institutional ethnography: experience vs statistics as basis of knowledge, sociology as ideological: reproduces relations of ruling, uses official statistics to legitimate power structures.
