CRI210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Metropolitan Police Service, Bow Street Runners, Subculture

• School: UTSG
• Department: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
• Course: CRI210H1
• Professor: Scot Wortley

Document Summary

Cri210 lecture 2 the structure and role of the police in canadian society and the. Service is for the public the association is a lobbying organization with the sole purpose of its own communities" developments + growth (they only care to advance the police members) Policing representations are often acquired through the media the police have a department to put forward a positive public image. Policing is far beyond the police force it is the act of maintenance and the reproduction of social order: we police on a day to day basis, act of policing is reproducing social norms. Institutions and individuals with the power and authority to arrest, detain, use physical form, taser use etc they are given the authority by the state to use. Coercive force to maintain + reproduce social order: the power to use physical force to mandate laws and the status quo this distinguishes them from all other institutions in society.