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Melayna’s Lamb’s groundbreaking work demonstrates that the police are never about justice but rather straddle the gap between what the law purports to be and the requirement to control various populations. Far from being a supplement to sovereign power, Lamb shows that the police are the foundation of that power. * James Martel, Professor, San Francisco State University, USA * A striking new voice in the field, Melayna Lamb develops an extraordinary theorisation of the formlessness and an-archic nature of police power. * Illan rua Wall, Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK * In this must-read book, Lamb brings much needed philosophical precision to recent scholarship on policing. Patiently unpicking the prevalent view that police reproduce specific forms of order, Lamb charts a way past dead-end theories like the colonial boomerang to contend with the an-archy that is characteristic of police power itself. * James Trafford, Reader in Philosophy & Design, University of the Creative Arts, UK *

Lamb’s A Philosophical History of Police Power goes a long way toward opening our eyes to what the police really are, and leaves for us as readers (and potentially abolitionists) to wrestle with what kind of anarchy we may imagine instead after extinguishing modern police order. * Crime Media Culture * Melayna’s Lamb’s groundbreaking work demonstrates that the police are never about justice but rather straddle the gap between what the law purports to be and the requirement to control various populations. Far from being a supplement to sovereign power, Lamb shows that the police are the foundation of that power. * James Martel, Professor, San Francisco State University, USA * A striking new voice in the field, Melayna Lamb develops an extraordinary theorisation of the formlessness and an-archic nature of police power. * Illan rua Wall, Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK * In this must-read book, Lamb brings much needed philosophical precision to recent scholarship on policing. Patiently unpicking the prevalent view that police reproduce specific forms of order, Lamb charts a way past dead-end theories like the colonial boomerang to contend with the an-archy that is characteristic of police power itself. * James Trafford, Reader in Philosophy & Design, University of the Creative Arts, UK * We have seen a rush to caricature attempts to understand policing through political ontology—particularly those under the (seemingly capacious) banner of Afro-pessimism. It is important to read A Philosophical History of Police Power as providing a corrective to this anxiously prophylactic critique. * Contemporary Political Theory * [A] truly beautiful book … The rigor and care of Lamb’s argument is what makes this book so successful in naming something that is so ubiquitous but disguised by the seemingly shocking notion that the police are an-archic. * Critical Legal Thinking *

""Melayna's Lamb's groundbreaking work demonstrates that the police are never about justice but rather straddle the gap between what the law purports to be and the requirement to control various populations. Far from being a supplement to sovereign power, Lamb shows that the police are the foundation of that power."" --James Martel, Professor, San Francisco State University, USA ""A striking new voice in the field, Melayna Lamb develops an extraordinary theorisation of the formlessness and an-archic nature of police power."" --Illan rua Wall, Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK ""In this must-read book, Lamb brings much needed philosophical precision to recent scholarship on policing. Patiently unpicking the prevalent view that police reproduce specific forms of order, Lamb charts a way past dead-end theories like the colonial boomerang to contend with the an-archy that is characteristic of police power itself."" --James Trafford, Reader in Philosophy & Design, University of the Creative Arts, UK

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Melayna Kay Lamb is a Lecturer at the University of Law, London, UK.

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