Criminal Justice in the Community week 9 Individual
Week 9: Week Nine - Individual Work
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Illustrate the significance of social control.
Violence is on the rise. However this does not necessarily mean that crime rates are on the rise as well. Fifty years ago, gangs fought with clubs and knives. Today, gangs run gun shipments and most are armed with automatic weapons. Think about how easy it is for a person to obtain a gun today to inflict harm; some gangs have even been caught with rocket launchers and other high tech weaponry designed to cause major amounts of damage.
Please answer the following questions:
· What do you think are the primary contributors to the level of violence in society today?
· What can the police do to control and reduce violence?
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Chapter 12, "Violence, Collective Behavior, and Deadly Force," pages 322-362.
Today, however, despite the good news of falling crime rates in so many of our cities, we face some of the same challenges of crime and criminal justice that we did three decades ago the growth of gangs and youth violence (including in rural and suburban areas), and the persistent problem of family violence in our culture, as well as such new challenges as transnational crime, threats of terrorism, and the growth of cybercrime. With crime preserving the rights of a free society should be vigilantly introspective about the past in helping guide us toward the future.
Violence Collective Behavior and Deadly Force:
Public interest in police –community relationship surges at times when civic peace and order are threatened by violent crime or some form of collective disorder. In the case if violent crime the police are sought for protection, yet may be blamed for permitting the violence to flourish. Similarly, in some cases of collective. Behavior, the police have the responsibility of protecting protesters even for very unpopular cause while ensuring that peace is maintained. In other cases of collective behavior when the police use force to control disorder, they will invariably be criticized by one faction for using too much force while being labeled as “soft” by an opposing faction. Others will make judgments based on what they see on television for a few seconds during the news.
Violent Crime:
Violence in the United States clearly appears to be on the rise. An anecdotal review of news stories shows an ever-increasing number of drive- by shootings, senseless random shootings of innocent people, and the violence associated with the illicit drug trade.
Collective Behavior: page 332
Collective behavior is defined by sociologists as relatively unstructured social behavior that is not fully controlled by cultural norms such as that occurring in crowds, riots, reveals, and even sometimes with rumor and fads. It brings into play emotions and unpredictable personal interaction. For obvious reasons, collective behavior is of major concern to the police.
There are many different classification id social groups. Some groups are established, some are casual. Examples of the former are cortical and horizontal groupings, in groups and out- groups, primary and secondary groups. Casual groups include crowds, mobs, and assemblages. Then there are related types of groups include behavior, such as social movements, social epidemics, fashions, fads, and crazes.
Deadly Force page 352
With reference to the police, do violence and force mean the same? Clearly not. Force means coercion, as in enforcement. Violence is often irrational, and it is vehement, turbulent, and ferocious. Going back to what we said earlier in the text, force is power, violence is might. For the police to restrain by arrest is force. When this restraint involves killing someone. Force becomes violence. Democratic social control theory insists upon limiting the use by the police of force and violence.
An officer’s decision to use a weapon is his- topically grounded in strict legal terms based on society’s views of what is reasonable and just. But in stark reality, a street incident provokes a decision based on little more what a particular officer on the scene perceives as reasonable and just.
Most U.S.police departments supply an officer with a devices handgun and ammunition, which the officer carries on duty. Police department’s firearms policy, specifying when deadly force may be used; legal issue of excessive force; and factors related to making the decision of whether to shoot.
Reference:
Carter, D. L., Radalet, L.A. (2002). Police and the Community (7th ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.