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: value: Preventing the police state : the rise of democratic pluralism; value: "Where officers are under the law" : pluralist policing; value: Losing faith in Sergeant Friday : pluralism's fall; value: Public safety as community empowerment : participation and the police; value: Deepening the "democratic" in democratic policing; value: Police and community; value: Police and equality; value: Police and participation.