3 Main Features

Three parts;

1. Police representation
2. Criminal representations
3. Society good?, fractured with lines of confilct? race, class etc

Police Representation

Two sides to police that we view on TV.

good moral side ---> Wholey bad side

the wholey bad side betrays our attitudes to policing.

'The Sweeney' , old Tv programme about police, which portrayed them as thuggish who were very violent however morally good.

Criminal Representation

Two sides also

1. Plain, bad evil ---> how society works, crack down on bad 'elements'.
2. Criminals are the logical outcome of social inequalitites. Not baddies, they behave in the way society influences.

Extreme criminals eg. Seriel killers are they sick or evil?