Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Formal Agencies
of Social control
- POLICE
- Enforces law and Investigates crime
- JUDICIARY (Courts)
- Magistrate courts deal with lesser
crimes e.g shoplifting and driving without
license where as Crown Courts deal with
more serious crimes e.g Murder,
- PRISON SERVICE
- Punishes criminals for breaking
laws and stop them from
committing crimes.
- PARLIAMENT
- Between them they make up
laws to regulate our behaviour
- THE POLICE
- Most obvious type of social control and
people debate about how effective Police
force is as sometimes they discriminate
- STYLES OF POLICING
- Watchman
- Maintaining order, usually found in working
class, mixed identity areas, They may treat some
groups different from others
- Legalistic
- Law enforcement and
professionalism, usually in
Socio-economic areas. They may treat
different due to threat order
- SERVICE
- Protecting citizens form outsiders,
Found in middle class areas where
people demand individual treatments