Police and Government: Histories of Policing in Australia

by Mark Finnane

This work provides a wholly new account of this history. Starting from the assumption that policing is a fundamental responsibility of government, it explores the political and historical conditions under which police have been organized in Australia. It argues that the relations between the institutions of "police" and "government" in Australia require analysis from three different perspectives: the relations of police forces and executive government,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195534743
• ISBN13: 9780195534740
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"