CRI335H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Totalitarianism, Organizational Culture, Structural Violence
10 Nov 2020
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Order and violence: the joker suggests that anarchy and chaos is fair, the system includes a lot of acceptable violence (e. g. when a gangbanger dies nobody cares) Police as governance: policing was not about crime fighting. Police were responsible for the lower levels of governance (e. g. keeping streets clean). Ericson"s 4 definitions of order: system of rules or procedures, authoritative commands, normal or efficient state (in good working order/out of order, ranks in society (hierarchy) Public order: social control, security, stable and peaceful society, characterised by calm and consensus. Police state: a totalitarian state run by means by a national police force using repressive methods such as counter surveillance and arbitrary arrests and imprisonment to control the population. Some modern nations have been police states; all, however, are policed societies. - alan. Police institutional order (organizational culture) vs. public order (community demands) Max weber was deeply concerned about society"s attempt to impose public order through the possibility of violence.
