CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Police Services Act Of Ontario, Ordnungspolizei, Crime Prevention
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Historical overview of policing: pre-modern, peel model of public police, traditional/professional crime fighting model. Policing: act of maintaining and reproducing social order. 1: pre-industrial england: agricultural kinship-based communities, policing as part-time, volunteer and communal responsibility. Strategies: hue and cry (13th century, witnesses felony are to join a chase and capture of offender. Institutionalized through "watch and ward" (was surveillance based, and involved o identifying community members that were part of the night watch and would survey the people in their community: george zimmerman and trayvon martin case. This case was further complicated by california"s stand your ground law: tithing, informants, "watch and ward, crime-stoppers, vigilant citizens, thief-takers, urbanization, kinship ties breaking down, corruption, uncoordinated, ineffective. 1829: first police emerge in england: resistance to having full-time police officers. Resistance to centralized police force: bourgeois fear for centralized power, threat to civil liberties (fear fr. Above: working class fear of control of dissent, political repression (fear fr.
