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Police and the liberal state / edited by Markus D. Dubber and Mariana Valverde. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008. - x, 273 p. : 24 cm. - Critical perspectives on crime and law .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Police, sovereignty, and law : Foucaultian reflections / Mariana Valverde -- The supreme sovereignty of the state : a genealogy of police in American constitutional law, from the founding era to Lochner / Christopher Tomlins -- Police power and the hidden transformation of the American state / William J. Novak -- Limited liberty, durable patriarchy / Mark E. Kann -- Criminal police in the Rechtsstaat / Markus D. Dubber -- Work and authority in policing / David Alan Sklansky -- The elusive line between prevention and detection of crime in German undercover policing / Jacqueline E. Ross -- Vulnerability, sovereignty, and police power in the ASBO / Peter Ramsay -- Loitering in the city that works : on circulation, activity, and police in governing urban space / Ron Levi.

ISBN: 9780804759328 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2008011549

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Police power.
Police.
Criminal law.
Police power--United States.
Police--United States.
Criminal law--United States.

LC Class. No.: K3220 / POL 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 363.2