SOC326H5 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Reading Company, Community Policing, Racism
SOC326H5
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
SOC 326: Lecture #1 [May 7th 2018]
Class 1 -- Introduction
What is Policing?
1. To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group
2. To impose one's viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian
way: policing others' comments by implementing speech codes.
- To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner: policed the grammar of everyone wh
o commented on the blog post.
3. To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance: policed the barracks.
Who/What are the Police?
1) A body of government employees trained in methods of law and authorized to
maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.
- A body of persons with a similar organization and function: campus police. Also called po
lice force.
2) Archaic Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with
respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters
affecting the public welfare.
3) Informal A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds: grammar police; fashion police.
4) The cleaning of a military base or other military area: Police of the barracks
must be completed before inspection.
- The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.
Police and Policing
- Acts of regulation
- Regulating body/Group of actors who regulate
- Course focused on both aspects
What does it mean to have police?
- Boundaries
- Norms
- Rules
- Laws
- Expectations
- Exclusions
o Create rule to exclude/cast out certain kinds of behaviours
▪ Illegal things + taboos + deviant behaviours
- Unanticipated Consequences
o Unanticipated consequences of how laws are developed
o Laws against homelessness (public loitering with mental health issues)
- Protest (give rise to protest)
o Norms + rules + laws are NOT static (codified + relatively stable)
o Overtime, with enough protest + legislative actions = policies can be changed
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Course Themes Overview
Class 1: Introduction
Class 2: Origins of the Police I
o How do Weber + Durkhei’s ideas aout soiet ifor oteporar
understandings of the police?
o Ho do Mar ad Egels’ ideas aout the state ad the eoo ifor
contemporary understandings of the police?
o Morality V.S. Power
▪ Abusive use of power + interest being misrepresented
Class 3: Origins of the Police II
o Where did the police as we know them today emerge?
o Which events sparked their emergence? How have different researchers
interpreted this?
Class 4: Authority (Essay 1 due)
o Why do the police have authority?
o How is authority given and maintained?
Class 5: Evaluating the Police
o Why do the police have authority?
o How is authority given and maintained?
o Despite they are steeled off, they are still being evaluated by the public
▪ In light of issues of misconduct
o Community policing
o Broken windows + zero tolerance
Class 6: Test 1 (no readings)
Class 7: Inequality in Policing
o Are the police race neutral?
o How do previous police practices impact current police practices?
o How doe social control shape individual lives in neighbourhoods?
Class 8: Policing Activism
o How do race and religion shape police response to protest?
▪ What role do historical events play in shaping these relationships?
Class 9: Surveillance
o How is policing (as an idea) used by non-state agents?
o Ho is sureillae a ultural pratie?
Class 10: Policing and Security (Essay 2 due)
o What is the relationship between the police and private security?
o How do private security workers and police officers conceptualize their jobs?
Class 11: The Future of Policing
o Which policing models will be used in Canada as time progresses?
▪ Will a one-size-fits-all model work?
Class 12: Test 2 (no readings)
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Document Summary
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