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Book SynopsisAdvances a broad interdisciplinary and international project to refocus attention on the scope and function of modern government through the lens of police power.
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Police and the Liberal State adds to the growing new scholarship on police. With its excellent analysis, this significant and original contribution will have a major impact on both law and society." —Pat O'Malley, University of Sydney
"This volume provides compelling evidence of both the continued vitality of police power and its complex permutations during different historical periods in the development of American liberalism. Those seeking to understand the problems of governing contemporary American society and in seeking new approaches to classic problems like poverty and crime control will want to read this pathbreaking, cross-disciplinary study." —Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley
Table of ContentsContents Contributors 000 Preface 000 Introduction Policing the Rechtsstaat 000 Markus D. Dubber and Mariana Valverde 1. Police, Sovereignty, and Law: Foucaultian Reflections 000 Mariana Valverde 2. The Supreme Sovereignty of the State: A Genealogy of Police in American Constitutional Law, from the Founding Era to Lochner 000 Christopher Tomlins 3. Police Power and the Hidden Transformation of the American State 000 William J. Novak 4. Limited Liberty, Durable Patriarchy 000 Mark E. Kann 5. Criminal Police in the Rechtsstaat 000 Markus D. Dubber 6. Work and Authority in Policing 000 David Alan Sklansky 7. The Elusive Line between Prevention and Detection of Crime in German Undercover Policing 000 Jacqueline E. Ross 8. Vulnerability, Sovereignty, and Police Power in the ASBO 000 Peter Ramsay 9. Loitering in the City That Works: On Circulation, Activity, and Police in Governing Urban Space 000 Ron Levi Notes 000 Index 000
