CRI335H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Order, Microsoft Powerpoint, Structural Level
5 Nov 2018
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Jokers says from bat man police have organized plans and called them schemers. Name of ta on front of paper. Social order determines certain things as acceptable violence (i. e. gang members dying) Common wisdom that violence is disorder but need to disrupt this notion. Violence and order go hand in glove and reviled within state police. Primary job is to fight crime and enforce law, linking policing with governance. Policing as practice that has broad sense of crime fighting: covering all aspects of daily life. The mandate of police patrol officers is to employ a system of rules and authoritative commands to transform troublesome, fragile situations back into normal or efficient state whereby the ranks in society are preserved. Critiqued this idea ericson that it is primarily about crime fighting. Patrol police only spend small about of their time about crime fighting: crime is social construction something that is produced. Police only spend small amount on crime fighting.
