Policing Citizens: Authority and RightsThis 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. |
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What is Policing? 1113425 FORK | 1 |
Peacekeeping and Service? | 12 |
Exercising Authority | 20 |
Continental and Other Forms of Policing | 26 |
Keeping Dissent in Its Place | 64 |
Thought Talk and Action | 97 |
Abusing Authority | 121 |
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