SOSC 3655 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Peacekeeping, Blue Lives Matter, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
25 Oct 2016
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The phenomenon of policing is about exclusion, resistance, and accommodations contextualized within the intersections of culture, political economy, and history: moreover, policing is an exercise of control, fundamentally consisting of privilege. Policing is celebrated as a forum of public protection, inviting the unequivocal support and participation of a consensually orientated society. What elements of the dominant culture define the appropriateness of policing. How exploitative are policing systems generally of various cultural values: policing is contextualized culturally, mediated politically, and articulated legally. Confining discussions of policing to a legal narrative is a meaningless exercise. It forecloses any possibility of social justice discourses. Which presumably must implicate such dynamic features. Ex; history and political economy: the ongoing discussion about the police mystifies, trivializes, and distracts the public from a much needed public consciousness and debate. Debate in terms of their juridical roles as rule enforcers within a criminal just system.
