CRCJ 3001 Lecture Notes - Social Order, Critical Race Theory, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
1 Dec 2020
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Cohen: "societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. "new"-ness i threat to values (not just the crime: advocates, experts i moral entrepreneurs, proportionality i irrationality. Theories of social control concept of "social control" is widely used; but loosely defined. In particular, what separates the police from other service providers is that their work "consists of coping with problems in which force may have to be used" ( 2005: 165: bittner and the "realism" school of police studies. To be sure, the history of this aspiration is by and large a history of its failures and those who count only results may judge the avowals of nonviolence as a massive display of hypocrisy Yet, there can be n doubt that during the past one-hundred-fifty years the awareness of the moral and practical necessity of peace took hold of the minds of virtually all people".
