SOC326H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
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Duty that is required of a police officer which entails regulating and keeping society safe. Upholding rules, laws, and regulations by police and others. Done by any person/agency/organization that enforces rules, regulations and laws. Services to the community: to serve and protect. Policing as the regulation and government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants . Laid the groundwork for the modern, professional, apolitical police bureaucracy. Police work requires expertise, skill, and proper support. Alert to the distinct police and types of policing. State begins to acknowledge that they and the police can"t protect everyone. Shift away from the state and towards business. Usually citizens are not directly involved in the apprehension of criminals. Police provision of social welfare services: family services and the morality department. Working class citizens were the major recipients (to avoid courts/did not know law) Suggested that citizens preferred the police dept. rather than social workers methods.
