SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Essentialism, Problem Solving, Crime Prevention

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

Document Summary

Lecture 3 and 4: police in society: roles, recruitment and training. Young people come into the job thinking being a police officer is all about fighting crime and excitement when it has a lot to do with other things that people find boring. Independent of race (racial minorities are more likely to say they are in it for benefit packages, help community etc. ) ethnicity and gender (females are less likely to say law enforcement: so what, socially constructed role vs. Basic criteria in canada: 18 years (most are late 20s, canadian citizen or permanent resident, completed high school, drivers license, no criminal record. Mechanisms: a recruiting officer or team, unsolicited applications, community presentations (send officers to the community to get peoples attention and get people interested in job, media advertising, social media/online. Advertising: strategic presentation of the organization, professional, diverse, community oriented.