SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Police Legitimacy, Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom), Problem Solving
Document Summary
Crime prevention, problem oriented policing, evidence-based policing, community. Police work under the threat of danger but most of their work is not exciting. Most of the work is not even related to managing actual crime. Review ii (1) bravery (2) autonomy (3) secrecy. Core principles of policing: moral mandate, suspicion, isolation/solidarity, conservatism, pragmatic, machismo. Popular since the 1980s, the police cannot be responsible for crime prevention on their own. Recruiting community residence into the project of policing community disorder. Community policing = philosophy of policing centered on prevention, police-community. What is community policing about? threat identified safety, by acknowledging that, you also acknowledge the limits of the state. Hides the fact that the community can be divided as well and there can be important social order aspects that exacerbate exclusion. Can be trying to mend relationships that have had bad experiences with the police, The social dynamics of community involvement satisfaction for the service recipients, **pay attention to leighton article**
