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"This innovative collection of essays rescues the concept of police from its limited application with criminology and police studies, and insists on its importance to the social analysis of law, regulation, and government. The result is a significant and provocative social analysis of police power, broadly understood."Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology, Director of the Oxford Centre for Criminology, and Fellow of All Souls College "This terrific book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines who share a sense that police forces and the legal doctrine of the state's 'police power' have a greater connection than is usually believedthat the common vocabulary reflects common roots in a particular worldview, which is profoundly antiliberal and antilegalistic."David Alan Sklansky, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, BerkeleyValverde, Mariana is the author of 'New Police Science The Police Power in Domestic And International Governance', published 2006 under ISBN 9780804753920 and ISBN 080475392X.
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