SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: London Metropolitan University, White-Collar Crime, Dominion Police

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

You can drop the act, and check your performance and see if it needs to be changed in some ways. Possibility of crime : looking and trying to prevent crime before it happens (done through data of previous crimes, data through crimes in particular neighborhoods over time etc). We expect officers to be proactive in reducing crime: efficiency: of policy and what police do. The prevention of crime is an important part of it looking at the more proactive. Some have argued that police are just like others, using their job as simply a means of survival. Some marxists have argued that while they may be on paper definition as a working class, they can be a part of the ruling class. Society: society operates like a machine, with different parts that work together to make the machine run, if any part. Argue that the society operates like a machine- you have different parts: 1.