The Politics of Policing

Developments and problems associated with police power are at the very front of current public debate. This volume addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

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Edited by Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

Summary

Developments and problems associated with police power are at the very front of current public debate. This volume addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

Product details

• Authors: Mathieu Deflem
• Assisted by: Mathieu Deflem (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781786350305
• ISBN: 978-1-78635-030-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 638 g
• Series: Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology