EAN: 9781788735209

A CRITICAL THEORY OF POLICE POWER - MARK NEOCLE...

The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in
conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication  this book has been one of the
most powerful and wide-ranging critiques of the police power. Neocleous argues for an expanded
concept of police  able to account for the range of institutions through which policing takes
place. These institutions are concerned not just with the maintenance and reproduction of order
but with its very fabrication  especially the fabrication of a social order founded on wage
labour. By situating the police power in relation to both capital and the state and at the
heart of the politics of security  the book opens up into an understanding of the ways in which
the state administers civil society and fabricates order through law and the ideology of crime.
The discretionary violence of the police on the street is thereby connected to the wider
administrative powers of the state  and the thud of the truncheon to the dull compulsion of
economic relations.

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