Naslov
Sociology of Police:Unrealised Potential of Social Science

Autori
Matić, Renato

Izvornik
Varstvoslovje (1580-0253) 8 (2006), 3-4; 183-191

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Sociology; Police; Purpose; Function; Society; Safety; Sociability

Sažetak
This paper tries to explore the potentail of the social science to make use of sociology, as they did of psychology and criminology, in their attempts to explain the different types of social action, values, processes and relations relating to the interaction between the police and society. Considering the wide use of sociology in researching the military, an institution that shares its social roots with the police, the first section provides on overview of military institutions and their influence on other social domains, and aims to show the potential of sociology to study the institutionalisation of the structures that have historically been developing in order to protect society and its members. Consequently, the following sections analyse the potential of sociology to study the police by studyng social processes, values, relations and actions. The following are thereby implied: social relations become stabilized through and repetition of structure that ensure the long-term prevention of threats to civil security ; the protection of social values and how this presents concrete everyday goals for police activity as well as permanent goals for police vocation ; social processes, phenomena and events constantly renew the purpose of police ; and specific forms of socially responsible behaviour, as opposed to deviant behaviour, that become institutionalised through police activity.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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