The Police Power
Patriarchy And The Foundations Of American Government
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Publication
2005-02-28 - Columbia University Press
Language
English
Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9345488M
- ISBN-139780231132060
- ISBN-100231132069
- OCLC Control Number56752097
- OCLC Control Numberpolicepowerpatri0000dubb
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004043140
- LibraryThing1206623
- Goodreads2546957
Classifications
- LCCKF4695.D82 2005
Description
"Mention the phrase "Homeland Security" and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. However, even before its recent growth, the power to police had represented a vast expansion of legislative and regulative power at all levels of U.S. governance, from the federal government down to the smallest municipalities. 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 law. He argues that the primary characteristics of this power, including the inability to accurately define it, reflect its origins in the discretionary and virtually limitless patriarchal power of the householder over his household"--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Two basic modes of state governance can be traced throughout the history of Western political thought and practice.
Subjects
Other Editions
- The Police Power: Patriarchy And The Foundations Of American Government
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