SOC300H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Risk Assessment, Penology, Illegal Drug Trade
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A system of knowledge, beliefs, behaviours, and customs shared by members or the organization. Examples: shop floor cultures of the 2 weather stations; the two penal identities of. Smolensk and omsk prisons; the different approaches to punishment at ciw and vspw. Different work output: different weather predictions and experience of punishment. E. g. police, teachers, doctors: they enact the policies, direct interaction with people that are using their services, because they are the ones implementing the policy they are the ones that have the discretion to use it or not. What do they have in common: not managers/ policy setters, deal directly with clients (offenders, students , usually: lot of discretion, tremendous influence over actual practice. When law, policy, and rules are ill matched to worker"s views of fariness and appropriate action, street level work smolders with conflict over what is the right decision and what is the right thig to do.
