CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Private Police, Crime Prevention, Substance Abuse

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 131
• Professor: Simon Fraser

Document Summary

70,000 officers in canada: 199 per 100,000 canadians, # steadily increasing - cyber crimes, /canadian annually, 1 in 5 officers is female. Largest components of cjs -filtering the crime before that comes to court or corrections: 60% of cjs funding. Subset of police but do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e sa(cid:373)e po(cid:449)er, e(cid:454): transit security. ?if question is about primary role then, peacekeeping is right: peacekeeping. Legislation: government, diversity, crime and social disorder, funding, community, downloading. Self-harm- to help police to themselves: evidence destruction, emergency situation, risk of offence. The working personality -largely excluded from rest of society, so they will together with other cops more -> it will i(cid:374)crease the (cid:858)police(cid:859) perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455). Para(cid:374)oid(anxiety: aspects (working personality 4 aspects)-exam, preoccupation with danger exposed to danger daily, excessive suspiciousness of people and activities, protective cynicism humour thing. Cannot serious every time so more ligher: authoritarianism. Police subculture-positive implications: encourage camaraderie(fellowship), trust among police officers, helps individual officers with police work, a source of general support.