This subject examines the definition of the police role in industrial society. The subject focuses on characteristics of policing as an occupation, the policing of social divisions and social inequality, the maintenance of social order and current issues in policing.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2018.
HD/FL
One session
Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security
Not available to students, who have completed JST222 Policing and Society or JST504 Policing Society. Students must have on-line access.
-the police role in modern industrial society -different styles of policing including community and paramilitary policing -the policing of social inequality, including an examination of the policing of social groups, which are defined by social class, gender, age and ethnicity -policing as work, which is performed in large bureaucratic organisations -the police occupational culture as an example of an occupational culture and the influence, which it can have on the performance of work -the concepts of social order and social control and the effect of different policing actions on the maintenance of each -media representations of police in news, current affairs and fiction. The media representations will be compared with research on policing
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.