Sociology 2253A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homicide, Decision-Making, Community Policing
14 Mar 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Provincial ontario, quebec, newfoundland = only have this. The police forces across canada vary in size. Two measures are generally used to determine the appropriate size of a police for and to identify trends in the populations: the population-to-police-officer ratio. Bureaucracy, characterized by these four organizational characteristics: made in 1930"s, hierarchal differentiation of rank structure. Chief = highest rank a: constable = lowest rank, functional differentiation a. Job specialization (patrol, homicide, traffic, robbery, etc. : routinization of procedure and practices, formal practices included in policy, help explain all aspects of the organization, centralization of command, ultimate authority remains at top. Measure this by the management of demand aka. More important= response time for emergency calls. Arrest rates focus on: clearance rates, the percent of crimes that are solved (high for crimes of violence, low for property crimes) Passion police officers that were passionate believed force was a legitimate means for solving conflict.
