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Humanism as Repression: Counselors Training Police
Author(s) -
ADAMS HAROLD J.,
SPICER CATHY A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1982.tb01699.x
Subject(s) - oppression , humanism , social control , psychology , control (management) , resistance (ecology) , training (meteorology) , humanistic psychology , criminology , function (biology) , social psychology , public relations , sociology , political science , law , management , politics , ecology , physics , evolutionary biology , meteorology , economics , biology
Passage of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 has led to both increased expenditure on police technology and humanistically oriented police training programs. While those two outcomes may seem contradictory, both aid police in their attempt to achieve social control. Advocates of humanistic police training programs have generally ignored the role of police in maintaining societal inequalities, repressing assent and social change, and diffusing legitimate protest. Seen in the light of those larger social issues, human relations skills in the hands of the police can become effective tools with which to achieve social control while avoiding the resistance generated by more coercive methods. As such, they function not as progressive, humanistic measures, but rather as a means for perpetuating human oppression.