SOC326H5 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Criminal Justice, City, Norm (Social)
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Two theories on the police both needed to understand contemporary problems of the police: use of force (coercion, force comes from weber"s theory of the world, morality/social values implicit use of durkheim view of social views. Combining weber and durkheim: coercion and morality, police maintain order against the will of citizens; but they do so according to laws held by the community, operating legally in doing so it seems coercive and moral. *why its important to contextualize the broader function of police* Bordua and reiss [historical and internal structure of police in the structure of authority] Main question: is there such a thing as a synthesis model of all theories and analysis. 1748 and was about the control of immigrants, vagrants and ideal poor; similar instances of small scale policing of runaway slaves traces how this spread to the control of many other minority groups over.
