The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government - Hardback

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 law.

• | Author: Markus Dirk Dubber
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 12, 2005
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0231132069
• | ISBN-13: 9780231132060