SOSC 3655 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Ontario Provincial Police, Social Reproduction
25 Oct 2016
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Reading #6 - the police as reproducers of order. There were repeated governmental failures in using military force to handle disorder. The legitimacy of modern policing continues to rely first and foremost on this micro-level: however, as policing has evolved, it has entered into other arenas of legitimation work". In keeping with the general trend in modern organizations, police forces have been made professional and bureaucratic: criteria"s of efficiency and effectiveness have evolved, particularly in crime work. Their product" of crime control is conveniently elastic, carries a virtuous. Whenever a small municipality clings to the feeling of autonomy that comes with maintaining its own police force, it is subjected to continuing and various pressures to conform with he trend to larger units. However, large police forces also experience continuing, The police force have also multiplied their manpower and technological resources sometimes systematic, wrongdoings by their officers. Usually including the assertion that the police the only 24/7 social-service agency.
