Overview

Police and the Liberal State advances a broad interdisciplinary and international project to refocus attention on the scope and function of modern governance through the lens of the police power in its multiple manifestations—from the family to the police station and the prison, and from municipal government to state sovereignty and global security—and techniques—surveillance, control, and licensing, as well as ordinances, regulations, and administrative, constitutional, and criminal law. In the contributions to this volume, police power emerges as a rich and flexible concept that offers a broader functional context to explain the operation of governmental institutions. The essays reveal connections across the history of government, across systems of government within a particular state, and comparatively, across different states and levels of government. The comprehensive scope and boundless ambition of police power, the very characteristics that rest uneasily with traditional conceptions of the liberal state, make it a uniquely useful platform for interdisciplinary and international inquiries into fundamental questions of government and law.

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Author:   Markus D. Dubber ,  Mariana Valverde
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780804759328

ISBN 10:   0804759324
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   05 August 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents 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

Reviews

This volume provides compelling evidence of both the continued vitality of police power and its complex permutations. Those seeking to understand the problems of governing contemporary American society will want to read this pathbreaking, cross-disciplinary study. - Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley

Author Information

Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law and Director, Buffalo Criminal Law Center at SUNY Buffalo School of Law. Mariana Valverde is Professor at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. They are the editors of The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (Stanford, 2006).

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