CRI210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Handcuffs, London Metropolitan University, Toronto Police Service
5 Feb 2018
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The structure and role of the police in canadian societ. Policing is the act of maintaining and reproducing social order. Public police are institutions and individuals, given the right by the state, to use co force to maintain and reproduce social order. There is a consensus within society regarding norms, values and laws. There is widespread agreement over how to deal see slides ociety e coercive. The relationship between the state and society is characterized by conflict betwee different social classes and interest groups. The police are only there to enforce the law and involves a create deal of discretion and bias. The system including law and justice institutions, operates as a system of control o powerless in favour of the powerful. The police are a key institution that operates within the context of social conflict. unofficial mandate is to enforce class-based laws and maintain the current social o.
