Police and the Liberal State

by Markus D. Dubber (Editor), Mariana Valverde (Editor)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804759328
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	08/05/2008
Series:	Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Contributors     vii
Preface     ix
Introduction: Policing the Rechtsstaat   Markus D. Dubber   Mariana Valverde     1
Police, Sovereignty, and Law: Foucaultian Reflections   Mariana Valverde     15
The Supreme Sovereignty of the State: A Genealogy of Police in American Constitutional Law, from the Founding Era to Lochner   Christopher Tomlins     33
Police Power and the Hidden Transformation of the American State   William J. Novak     54
Limited Liberty, Durable Patriarchy   Mark E. Kann     74
Criminal Police and Criminal Law in the Rechtsstaat   Markus D. Dubber     92
Work and Authority in Policing   David Alan Sklansky     110
The Elusive Line Between Prevention and Detection of Crime in German Undercover Policing   Jacqueline E. Ross     136
Vulnerability, Sovereignty, and Police Power in the ASBO   Peter Ramsay     157
Loitering in the City That Works: On Circulation, Activity, and Police in Governing Urban Space   Ron Levi     178
Notes     203
Index     263

Editorial Reviews

"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

From the Publisher

"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."

Universityof Sydney - Pat O'Malley

"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."

Universityof California, Berkeley - Jonathan Simon

" 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."

University of Sydney - Pat O'Malley