SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Crowd Control, Overproduction, Social Order

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

Document Summary

Mental state: temporary state of involuntary auism, so focused on catching the target. Memory: ater the chase they cant remember anything else besides the pursuit, but can tell you everything about the vehicle. Physiology: overproducion of adrenalin, hyper focus oten leads to violence because police don"t have control of their acions. Media oten makes it out that police act like this all the ime. Cant create policy if they don"t know all aspect. Police should not have free rule there should be policies. Engage in the community, but not be forceful. Police need to be experts in public relaions but less likely to obey if close friends: perceived role. But force is oten needed: personal crisis. Diicult to be an authority igure, use force and be friendly with the public. Have the legal authority to use force over the people. Role of police: law enforcement, applicaion of law.