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Democracy and the Police

Democracy and the Police

Sklansky, David Alan

Hardcover

Series: Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law

General LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0804755639
ISBN13: 9780804755634
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Nov 12 2007
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Everyone is for democratic policing; everyone is against a police state. But what do those terms mean, and what should they mean? The first half of this book traces the connections between the changing conceptions of American democracy over the past half-century and the roughly contemporaneous shifts in ideas about the police--linking, on the one hand, the downfall of democratic pluralism and the growing popularity of participatory and deliberative democracy with, on the other hand, the shift away from the post-war model of professional law enforcement and the movement toward a new orthodoxy of community policing. The second half of the book explores how a richer set of ideas about policing might change our thinking about a range of problems and controversies associated with the police, ranging from racial profiling and the proliferation of private security, to affirmative action and the internal governance of law enforcement agencies.

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