Policing Citizens e-bog
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This analysis of policing throughout the modern world demonstrates how many of the contentious issues surrounding the police in recent years - from paramilitarism to community policing - have their origins in the fundamentals of the police role. The author argues that this results from a fundamental tension within this role. In liberal democratic societies, police are custodians of the state's ...
E-bog
436,85 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
1 november 2002
Længde
288 sider
Genrer
1DBKE
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781135361501
This analysis of policing throughout the modern world demonstrates how many of the contentious issues surrounding the police in recent years - from paramilitarism to community policing - have their origins in the fundamentals of the police role. The author argues that this results from a fundamental tension within this role. In liberal democratic societies, police are custodians of the state's monopoly of legitimate force, yet they also wield authority over citizens who have their own set of rights.