SOC219H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Domestic Terrorism, Port Security, Cybercrime
Document Summary
Soc219- chapter 1- canadian police and policing policy, post 9/11. Despite continuing demand, public policing in the decade before the attacks had become increasingly, rationalized, responsibilized, privatized, diversified and pluralized. Government spending restraints and concerns about rapidly growing policing costs and expanding policing commitments dramatically limited police growth while encouraging the expansion of other forms of private, community and self- policing. This chapter: examines the key macro- level policy drivers of canadian policing since 9/11 discusses their impact on current police policy and practice in canada explores emerging policy issues. Policing in this article refers to a broad set of administrative and coercive activities that are designed to maintain public order, safety and security and can be engaged in by a variety of public and private agencies. The police are a government agency, authorized by law and public and political consent to provide a variety of policing services-- most central is the enforcement of law and order.
