SOC 3750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.2: Abner Louima, Saskatoon Freezing Deaths, Morality

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

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Dirty harry and the station queens: a mertonian analysis of police deviance. Police deviance can be understood as a function of an anomic social structure where a cultural emphasis on police as noble, masculine (cid:858)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)e-fighters(cid:859) o(cid:272)(cid:272)upies a disproportio(cid:374)ate relatio(cid:374)ship to the a(cid:448)aila(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) and/or efficacy of institutionally accepted means. Merto(cid:374)(cid:859)s theor(cid:455) of a(cid:374)o(cid:373)ie aberrant conduct is likely to occur when individuals have limited or no access to the institutionalized and normatively accepted means by which culturally celebrated goals, purposes, and interests are to be achieved. Four deviant modes of adaptation are likely to occur: ritualists: scale down the goals, rendering them more readily achievable. I(cid:374) this stud(cid:455) (cid:858)su(cid:272)(cid:272)ess(cid:859) = good poli(cid:272)e offi(cid:272)ers are thought to (cid:271)e (cid:374)o(cid:271)le, (cid:373)as(cid:272)uli(cid:374)e (cid:858)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)e-fighters(cid:859) Specially those who violate institutional codes of conduct and/or laws of the state. Certain values, rationalizations and techniques conducive to misconduct are promoted through socialization and become entrenched in solidarity.