SOC 3750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.2: Police Academy, Andragogy, Normative Social Influence

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Increasingly bureaucratized, especially since leaders struggled to combat corruption problems. Departments are highly specialized, with complex divisions of labour, vertical authority structures, and extensive rule systems. Paramilitary-bureaucratic structure may be ill suited to fulfill the role expected of it, including implementing community policing. Community policing: police and citizens work together, improve the quality of life in communities, promotes horizontal communication and increased authority of line officers traits opposite of a paramilitary-bureaucratic style. Paramilitary-bureaucratic structure organization and culture are salient features of law enforcement: presence felt early in training. Tension expected as training academies change to incorporate new paradigm of community policing. Classic features of bureaucracy found in law enforcement departments: also (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396)isti(cid:272)s of (cid:373)ilita(cid:396)(cid:455) o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)s, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h foste(cid:396) a(cid:374) (cid:858)us (cid:448)s. the(cid:373)(cid:859) (cid:373)e(cid:374)talit(cid:455) To be accepted, new recruits must ensure intense training and adult socialization process: physical training, performing under stress, and mastery of defensive tactics, weapons, and use of force.