SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Informal Social Control, Ordnungspolizei, Neighborhood Watch
SOC316 LECTURE 3:
Rawlings:
• 1829: the first time he would consider the police being emerged
• despite the importance of police now, we should realize that the idea of policing has a
much longer history
• in order to really understand the inner workings of police and tensions they faced with
each other and the public, we have to see the development of the police as a turning
point in a much longer in social control of policing
• that longer history of policing , has been ignored in contemporary research
Crime, Politics, and Deviance in the 18th Century
• ai historial tred: i early ritia i 6’s we were seeing massive rises in
population, hence there was a given rise to mobility (people were moving around a lot),
which later resulted in an increase in deviance
• restoratio of the 66’s ities ad tos are hagig, alues are hagig, ay
people are valuing different things, there is a fight over the control of morality
• time of shifting norms
• police for the first time in british history are thought of something distinct
• in this context where peoples values are changing and people are fighting, we need
police who are sanctioned by the state and that can help enforce and define peoples
boundaries of behaviour
• the police should be removed from politics, they should be seen as a necessary
institution
• police emerges when people come to think there is chaous and disorder
• The criminal justice system was not the only solution that people saw, the CJS was one
response of many to deviance
The Crime Panic of 1748
• A constituted major turning point of informal social control, being minimized
• Sparked institutionalization at least to some extent of the police
• People were going to the police now more
• London tarnished for turning people into deviants
• Early resistance to the police , merchant groups resisted to the police as they thought
they were unskilled , they saw that the police were on the side of the upper class
• Ideas about idleness, crime, and social control in shaping crime
• Why is there more crime in cities then rural crimes? There are more people and more
spare time (more holidays), people have more diversions from work (people would not
have that many leisure activities to think about)
• I ities sie people are’t liig ith feudal lords, sie people are liig aay fro
ruling class, instead of aiming for goods things they might turn to crime
• Mass use of gallows where people would be hanged publically, the idea of this was to
scare people. If you disrupt the social order and commit crime, you will be killed
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