The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government

by Markus D. Dubber

Book Overview

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens.

Dubber explores the roots of the power to police--the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers--by focusing on its most obvious and problematic manifestation: criminal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231132077
• ISBN13: 9780231132077
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary