SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Control, The Sequence, Sousveillance
30 Mar 2018
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Week 10: tuesday, march 13th community policing and broken windows. Cpted, expertise and social status: expertise, status, and power having cpted certification in the crime prevention economy carries a little bit of weight. Mostly interesting, our society loves experts of any kind. Expertise : prudent, responsible people & risk expertise. What happens when expertise is ignored: most cpteds get frustrated when people ignore their expertise, expertise and status are called into question of course they get frustrated when people don"t recognize the legitimacy of their expertise. Examining the media"s role: watchdog: media as watchdog , investigate, access to info, freedom of press, transparency/accountability. Investigating is extremely time consuming and expensive: access to information police departments are tight lipped. The more media depends on this, the more power the police have. Makes the media vulnerable: transparency and accountability the more we can hold them accountable for investigating techniques, the more transparent they are, less common watchdog role is less common.
