Police and the Liberal State Dubber Valverde Hardback John Wiley & Sons

Police and the Liberal StateAuthor(s): Markus D. Dubber, Mariana Valverde\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804759328, 978-0804759328\nSynopsis\nPolice 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 manifestationsfrom the family to the police station and the prison, and from municipal government to state sovereignty and global securityand techniquessurveillance, control, and licensing, as well as ordinances, regulations, and administrative, constitutional, and criminal law. \n\n 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 gov.