CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Authoritarianism, Special Investigations Unit, First Nations
2 May 2018
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Lecture 6 – October 19, 2017
Poliig s The Polie
- Policing: the act of establishing and maintaining social order (Shearing and Stenning, 87)
- Policing: activities of any individual or organization acting legally on behalf of public or
private organizations or persons to maintain security or social order (Griffits)
- The Police: institutions or individuals given the right by the state to use coercive force in
order to maintain public order and safety
Historical Overview of Policing
- Pre-Modern:
o Pre-industrial England: agricultural kinship based communities
▪ Policing was part-time, volunteer and communal responsibility
• Hue and cry
• Watch and ward
• Tithings – families (10) who organize patrols of land they own
• Informants
• Thief-takers (18th century) – capture felons/retrieve stuff for a fee
o Industrial Revolution (18th century and early 19th century) – increasingly unhappy
▪ Urbanization
▪ Kinship ties breaking down
▪ Corruption
▪ Uncoordinated, ineffective
o Resistance to centralized police force
▪ Bourgeois fear of centralized power, threat to civil liberties (fear from
above)
• Concerned to try and avoid power in monarchy
• Didt at too uh poer i the hads of oarhy
• Suspicious of domestic army working under the monarch
▪ Working class fear of control of dissent, political repression (fear from
below)
• Will be an instrument of class control
• Suppress political protest
- Peel Model of Public Police
o Metropolitan police
o Peel was the founding father of this system
o Paramilitary
▪ Body of men
▪ Hierarchically organized
▪ Allegiance to senior officers
▪ Influenced by central governments
▪ Operate according to
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Document Summary
Policing: the act of establishing and maintaining social order (shearing and stenning, 87) Policing: activities of any individual or organization acting legally on behalf of public or private organizations or persons to maintain security or social order (griffits) The police: institutions or individuals given the right by the state to use coercive force in order to maintain public order and safety. Industrial revolution (18th century and early 19th century) increasingly unhappy. Peel model of public police: metropolitan police, peel was the founding father of this system, paramilitary, body of men, hierarchically organized, allegiance to senior officers, operate according to. Influenced by central governments: peels vision, objectives, keep order, prevent crime, key principles, discourage crime, prevention patrol. Impartial agents of legal system: cannot endorse anyone separated from politics, maintain proper conduct not a part of groups. Traditional/professional crime fighting model (1920s/30s: shift toward crime fighting model, 3 (cid:859)s, random patrol, rapid response, reactive investigation.
