CRIM 3655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Rights Watch, Fendi, Air Freshener
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Crime control rhetoric and police legitimation *profounded by the police* Homicides occur with people who know each other. The patrol police are working on behalf of the higher orders by keeping the lower orders in their place. Of course, it is not the mandate to the police to produce a new order their sense of order and the order they seek to reproduce are that of the status quo. Order is first and law exists to be used selectively where it is strategically valuable to reproduce order, in this respect, campaigners for law and order have got their ordering wrong: it should read order and law. They are low-status powerless groups whom the dominant majority see as problematic or distasteful. Police gravitate towards people who fall under police property it is not static. Over class, white well off educated are preferably kept out of sight. Abusive policing and failures in protection of indigenous women and girls in northern.
