SOSC 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Learned Helplessness, Models 1, Intersectionality
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Current trends in policing: discretion and policing of intimate partner violence lecture continued. Need for an integrated response (jaffe 1984) Discretion re: reasonable and probable grounds (i. e. stitch rule) The interactions between different aspects of a person"s identity and social location determined by for example, socio-economic status, age, race, ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation and employment status . The search for alternatives: specialized domestic violence courts, integrated responses, restorative approaches, e. g. community conferencing, development of socio-economic supports, shelters, transition houses, affordable housing, employment training programs, counselling programs, treatment programs for violent men, public education. List of critiques of professional policing model and emergence of new models: effectiveness, costly, distance from (racialized) communities . Kansas city preventative patrol experiment (1972): routine preventative patrol has little value in preventing crime or making people feel safe, costly. Ballooning police budgets: 1,005 billion dollars: distance from communities. Policing with and for, not of, the community. Police and community as equal partners" who co-produce safety".