ABSTRACT
To the extent that culture is a creation of law, it owes its survival to some form of law enforcement. In current societies, worldwide, beyond this locally intimate level, law enforcement is a function of policing by force of arms, carried out by either an officially sanctioned governmental institution or, during an emergency, an arm of a national military force. Enforcement can also be carried out by armed enforcers operating outside the law for the benefit of opposition forces within a state or, sometimes, for its own benefit. At the outset, sharing of experiences about encounters with law enforcement can set a context. Collect and compare descriptions of policing/law enforcement in contrasting countries and cultures. Much of the interface of culture and policing is potentially or actively violent; discussion of alternatives to violence such as nonviolent resistance could be introduced in this context.
