CRM 2305 Lecture 1: Crim 2305 Police in Modern Society week 1.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2305
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Policing- the act of cleaning up: how should we think of the police and policing, do we need conceptual boundaries to aid us in this course, how does canadian legislation define the term police . Police officer means a chief of police or any other police officer, but does not include a special contestable, a first nation"s constable, a municipal officer or an auxiliary member of a police force. Duties of police officers: you can find it online, includes things like persevering the peace. Different levels of theory: explanatory to predictive, macro or micro, philosophical to tactical, organizational to individual- how does the organization or the individual operate, relational and in isolation- relation to many things such as the community.