CRM 2305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Knowledge Worker, Police Legitimacy, Prezi

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2305
• Professor: monaghan

Document Summary

Relate it to the course materials and elements of griffith"s text. Beck and the risk society thesis: data and knowledge transforming society, future-oriented knowledge, individualization, risk knowledge is power. Ericson and haggerty policing is a matter of responding not only to individual demands for service but also to institutional demands for knowledge about risk . Police work is directed by the risk communication rules, formats and technologies of internal and external institutions. He"s arguing with the collapse of the cold war and now that capitalism is the game. He"s saying the movement are moving from the present mindedness and now we are worrying more and more about ourselves. E & h in risk society the tradtitioal police focus on deviance, control, and order is displaces in favour of a focus on risk, surveillance and security . This shift in orientation toward risk, surveillance and security is fostered by a changing legal regime in risk society (18)