CC211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sociological Perspectives, Toronto Police Association, Toronto Police Service
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Personality is that aspect of an individual that makes them identifiable and offers some explanation for why people may behave differently in similar social contexts. Another aspect of personality is the concept of stability. Individuals tend to behave in a rather consistent or predictable manner across time and context. For the purposes of this lesson, personality refers to the stable and distinct ways in which individuals, think, feel, and behave in their social interactions. Twersky-glasner (2005) has pointed out that defining and understanding the police personality has been complicated by popular myths and stereotypes of police officers that have permeated our culture over time. In his book media, crime, and criminal justice: images, realities, and. Policies, ray surette (2015) similarly argues that the media has proliferated stereotypical images of policing to the public that range from the lampooned police officers in the keystone. Kops to the street-level law enforcement soldiers of old 1970s television shows like starsky and.
