SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Police Legitimacy, Deindustrialization, Subculture

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Police interact with members of the community and working with them to solve problems. Taking police and putting them all over the community. As a result you get order and control as co-production. Cp (community policing) units, funding, more focus. Improves perceptions of safety and police legitimacy (gill et al. Embraced by senior officers, less by patrol officers. Subculture: crime fighting doesn"t happen in community policing- more social work, status differentials. Organizational: training- not trained to deal with people in society, resource intensive, demands of reactive policing. Responsibilization (o"malley 1992: partnership and state role. If you let low levels form of disorder go unaddressed for a certain amount of time, the people of the community will no longer defend their community as they once might. Disorder/low level crime seen as: community struggle, government neglect. Ecological advantages required: distracted pedestrians, escape routes, conventional economic activity etc.