SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antony Flew, Intolerable Acts, Participant Observation
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Deviant acts we control with force: jennifer hunt on the police. Police are required to handle a variety of peacekeeping and law enforcement tasks. Include settling disputes, controlling crowds, and pursuing criminals. The right to use force stands at the core of the police mandate. (unt(cid:495)s research explores how police themselves classify and evaluate acts of force. Legal (cid:523)or normal(cid:524) force: (cid:498)coercion necessary to subdue control, and restrain a suspect in order to take him into custody(cid:499) Excessive force: (cid:498)force not accountable in legal terms(cid:499) What exactly do we mean by (cid:498)normal force(cid:499)? as either legal, normal, or excessive. 18 months of participant observation in a major urban police department. Normal force: coercive acts that specific police on specific occasions deem necessary, appropriate, At police academy: recruits learn to account for force by reference to legal rules. They are issued the regulation instruments and trained to use them to restrain a suspect and gain control.
