Abstract:

Police has emerged in the process of development of the modern state. For this reason police is one of the characteristics of the modern state. The social nature of policing can be determined by examining the needs that police met and the gaps that police filled. For this purpose, it will be useful to look at the period which police and gendarmerie emerged. While enforcing law, police can violate it as well. Other than personal violations, in some cases these violations can be general. Political and legal sociologists propose two main reasons for this contradiction: involvement in politics and institutional alienation. Certain thinkers evaluate these situations as deficiencies and misconducts of policing. But some thinkers argue that these situations are expected results of the nature of policing

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