SOCI 3410 Lecture : lecture 4

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3410
• Professor: Darryl Davies

Document Summary

Shapes relationships within the police force, and it is an unwritten law in the police force that they would never testify against their brotherhood/partner. They have a duty not only to enforce the law and order maintance and crime prevention. By stander affect, very compartenized by rank and order. Successful police officers need the support of their fellow police officers if they were to break the secrecy than they would be isolated from the rest of the organization. They are cut off/ are no longer given access to information (within the organization) Woman use to complain that they were not given assignments that were considered policing, subject to discrimination and harassment. Police are sensitive to negative definitions from the public such as being called stupid and therefore they become the enemy, and secrecy becomes a defensive mechanism. Being part of the brotherhood leads to isolation from the public and therefore priority towards to force rather than the public.