CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - General Order, Neoliberalism
13 Dec 2013
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Three themes for the lecture: 1) the difference between police and policing, 2) plural policing, 3) privatized policing. Example: education becomes an investment into your future, and as an investment it is something you technically buy. But this relationship changes the way you think about university education. This means students to think of themselves more as clients, and you speak of degrees as an investment. This means we are more interested in the end product, rather than the process by which that degree is achieved. Rather than being a crime against the process, it becomes a strategy towards the end product. If we treat education as a commodity, it makes sense that people would purchase the means to getting that product. If you substitute the word security for the word education (if security becomes a commodity), similarly, what kind of changes does that effect in the way we think of ourselves, our relationship to that product, and to each other.
