SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Community Policing
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Policing concepts: scaled upwards: no longer exclusive activity of state bodies but performed by many actors. Foucault, effect of internalized discipline a non carceral form of self-control where the individual self-governs. Standing in a long line, avoiding going to hospital: loader reading: forms of policing diversification ; Through government, policing services are listed by government but provided by others, government contracting, security tests, running detention agencies. Above government, policing above the level of the sovereign state, internationally between states or super national setting, interpol, knowledge brokering and exchange. Beyond government, enhanced and expanding security market, market takes multiple forms, private security. Combination and globalizing trends that undermine the nation"s state, causes are both rooted in macro and micro changes. Insecurity and fear of crime, crime is a normal social fact, routine part of modern consciousness case even as crime declines, normal social fact and it was not in the past.
