SOC226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Britishness, Forego, Deterrence Theory
Document Summary
Soc 226: september 10, 2015 social studies of surveillance: the police. Police: racist, helpful, honest, abusive, segways, dishonest, protection, pigs, corrupt, conservative, power, security, power, response, photo radar, enforcement, eps relatively young: founded in 1892: 1400 police offers considered advanced in high tech equipment. People claiming the police are racist, excessively violent, abusive, etc: tom engel effect, making the eps conscious of complaints and thus behaving better. Potentially because of the crime rates in edmonton. Lots of people rely on the: csi, crime severity index: weights crimes, gives worse crimes heavier values; rather than dividing crimes up otherwise, edmonton has remained pretty stable in its crime rate. Not the worst rate, but relatively unchanged in comparison to other cities that are slowly going down; such as calgary and toronto. The history of policing: metropolitan police act of 1829, there was a force before this, but very corrupt, racist, and drunk. Extremely popular at first, people were prided in their britishness.
