Critical Theory of Police Power - The Fabrication of the Social Order

The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the most powerful and wide-ranging critiques of the police power. Neocleous argues for an expanded concept of police, able to account for the range of institutions through which policing takes place. These institutions are concerned not just with the maintenance and reproduction of order, but with its very fabrication, especially the fabrication of a social order founded on wage labour. By situating the police power in relation to both capital and the state and at the heart of the politics of security, the book opens up into an understanding of the ways in which the state administers civil society and fabricates order through law and the ideology of crime. The discretionary violence of the police on the street is thereby connected to the wider administrative powers of the state, and the thud of the truncheon to the dull compulsion of economic relations.

About the author

Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University London. He is the author of many books, including The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies, A Critical Theory of Police Power, and War Power, Police Power.

Summary

Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism

Report

In praise of War Power, Police Power:

Challenges and exhorts the reader, and is bursting with ideas, connections and complex relations. But from the outset and without pretension, it is clear that the book begs to be taken on a different, altogether grander level. . It is not simply a book about war and police-order, but can be read as a paradigmatic book. Illan rua Wall London Review of International Law

Product details

• Authors: Mark Neocleous, Neocleous Mark
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2021
• EAN: 9781788735209
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-520-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Police & security services, Constitution: government & the state, Marxism & Communism, Police and security services, Constitution: government and the state, Police; Power; Coercion; Violence; Capitalism; State theory