In “Maintaining Order: The Moral Justifications for Police Practices”, author Diddier Fassin begins by discussing how police officers generally think they are unjustly accused (93). He goes on to say that criminologists haven’t really explored the moral dimension of law enforcement, and instead they prefer to “explain police activity through the legal framework of their intervention and the characteristics of their public” (Fassin, 94). Because of this, criminologists limit their comprehension in the reasons why police officers behave the way they do and why there is police deviance and variations in their behaviors (Fassin, 94). Due to this common misunderstanding, the author says that he wishes to analyze the “moral framework of police intervention”
