SOCI 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Racial Profiling, Microsoft Powerpoint, Legal Culture
25 Feb 2019
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All additional information listed aside from the power point was discussed in class and stated by. Objectives: defining police discretion, explain how discretion is used and why it is applied by officer, identify and define the police culture and police personality, explain why the police use deadly force. Be able to identify these and define the traits associated with each. For some police are the thin blue line that protects us from violence. The police themselves can be defined as institutions of norms. The social contract perspective emphasizes the importance of neutrality in policing society. The keys are to protect society and enforce the law. Post 911 has been a time where we have to confront how we deal with certain issues. Racial profiling takes place when police move from their standard practice of case probability to class probability. Supporter of racial profiling favour the crime control model.
