Police and the Liberal State

By: Markus D. Dubber (Editor), Mariana Valverde (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 August 2008

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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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"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

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Non-Fiction Law Jurisprudence & General Issues Politics & Government Political Structure & Processes Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Criminal Law & Procedure Criminal Procedure Police Law & Police Procedures

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Policing the Rechtsstaat	p. 1
Police, Sovereignty, and Law: Foucaultian Reflections	p. 15
The Supreme Sovereignty of the State: A Genealogy of Police in American Constitutional Law, from the Founding Era to Lochner	p. 33
Police Power and the Hidden Transformation of the American State	p. 54
Limited Liberty, Durable Patriarchy	p. 74
Criminal Police and Criminal Law in the Rechtsstaat	p. 92
Work and Authority in Policing	p. 110
The Elusive Line Between Prevention and Detection of Crime in German Undercover Policing	p. 136
Vulnerability, Sovereignty, and Police Power in the ASBO	p. 157
Loitering in the City That Works: On Circulation, Activity, and Police in Governing Urban Space	p. 178
Notes	p. 203
Index	p. 263
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