SOC219H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Erving Goffman, Homosociality, Sex Segregation
Document Summary
Crime is a means to exacting justice (or revenge) when legal means are otherwise unavailable. Police processing of domestic violence: viewed as a non-crime aspect of police work, legitimate police disputes partitioned from family disputes, dv calls treated as low priority", but high risk". Police subculture who are the police and what is policing: professional policing, community policing (broken window policing) Police subculture: mission, action and excitement, us/them, authoritarian conservatism, suspicion and cynicism. Accomplishes 3 things: provides a how to" manual for doing police work, negotiates the dirty work" of policing, reproduces public law enforcement as gendered organization. False allegations: false allegations paradox, phenomenon of unfolding . Central park five tend to be young and/or disabled: may be fed insider info. , confirm stereotypes about blameworthiness . The reid technique: the reid technique has been criticized because it increases the likelihood of false confessions. Witness credibility: plausibility of theory witness is called on to corroborate, trustworthiness of witness.
