The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance

This interdisciplinary and international volume provides a critical analysis of the power to police as a basic technology of modern government found in a vast array of sites of governance, including not only the state, but also the household, the factory, the military, and-most recently-the global realm of war, police actions, and peace keeping.

Author: Markus D. Dubber
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/11/2006
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.38w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780804753920

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 203

About the Author
Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law and Director, Buffalo Criminal Law Center at SUNY Buffalo School of Law. He is the author of The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government (2005) and Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights (2002). Mariana Valverde is Professor at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto.