Democracy and the police
By: David Alan Sklansky.
Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780804755634; 9780804755641
Subjects: Police -- United States; Police-community relations -- United States; Rule of law -- United States; Democracy -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preventing the police state : the rise of democratic pluralism; title: "Where officers are under the law" : pluralist policing; title: Losing faith in Sergeant Friday : pluralism's fall; title: Public safety as community empowerment : participation and the police; title: Deepening the "democratic" in democratic policing; title: Police and community; title: Police and equality; title: Police and participation.