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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary and international volume provides a critical analysis of the power to police as a basic technology of modern government found in a vast array of sites of governance, including not only the state, but also the household, the factory, the military, and-most recently-the global realm of war, police actions, and peace keeping.
Trade Review"This is an important book because it casts contemporary and historical
understandings of police, the police power(s) of states, and the meaning of the verb 'to police' into a new light. It brings together...a stunning
breadth of intellectual achievement."—
Law and Politics Book Review"This innovative collection of essays rescues the concept of police from its limited application with criminology and police studies, and insists on its importance to the social analysis of law, regulation, and government. The result is a significant and provocative social analysis of police power, broadly understood."—Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology, Director of the Oxford Centre for Criminology, and Fellow of All Souls College
"This terrific book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines who share a sense that police forces and the legal doctrine of the state's police power have a greater connection than is usually believed—that the common vocabulary reflects common roots in a particular worldview, which is profoundly antiliberal and antilegalistic."—David Alan Sklansky, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Table of ContentsContents Contributors iii Introduction Markus Dirk Dubber & Mariana Valverde, Perspectives on the Power and Science of Police 1 Chapter 1 Mark Neocleous, Theoretical Foundations of the "New Police Science" 000 Chapter 2 Pasquale Pasquino, Spiritual Police and Earthly Police: Theories of the State in Early Modern Europe 000 Chapter 3 Mariana Valverde, "Peace, Order, and Good Government": Police-Like Powers in Postcolonial Perspective 000 Chapter 4 Markus Dirk Dubber, The New Police Science and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process 000 Chapter 5 Lindsay Farmer, The Jurisprudence of Security: The Police Power and the Criminal Law 000 Chapter 6 Alan Hunt, Police and the Regulation of Traffic: Policing as Civilizing Process 000 Chapter 7 Mitchell Dean, Military Intervention as "Police" Action? 000 Chapter 8 Ron Levi & John Hagan, International Police 000 Conclusion Christopher Tomlins, Framing the Fragments. Police: Genealogies, Discourses, Locales, Principles 000 Index 000
