SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Pepper Spray, Crimewatch, Victoria Police
10 Apr 2013
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Historical roots: employers, use (19th & 20th cent) Toronto: highest rate of use in canada, ratio private to public 3 to 1. Growth: started in 1960s/70s and again in the 90s. Ownership: companies employing private policing, can be transnational. More to police, insurance companies, to whoever hired them: apolitical. No political alliances, non unionized: flexibility. Public police: rep state, allowed to use force, accountable to the people too, symbolic power to people (ex. uniform, weapon, vehicle) Private police/security: mandated uniforms appearing police-like, authority to other legal mechanisms related to private property, making citizen arrests, use legal statutes. Government statutes: don"t apply to private police. Political economy of security: marx, further engels, who owns means of production and how it works in political sphere. Prison as punishment: designed prison, max happiness min pain, Functions of the design: enclose, deprivation, eliminate ability to hide. Order through invisibility: cant see others or supervisor.
