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A Philosophical History of Police Power

By: Melayna Kay Lamb

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A Philosophical History of Police Power

By: Melayna Kay Lamb

Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police at the centre of analysis this book demonstrates the manner in which police power exists in a complex and overlapping relationship with sovereignty and law in a form which is not reducible to implementation. In doing this it argues for the centrality of order in any consideration of police and challenging a common narrative whereby a dynamic, interventionist sovereign power that follows from a belief of order as 'artificial' is replaced by a liberal, limited non-interventionist sovereign power that proceeds from a 'natural' order. Moving through thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel and Adam Smith the book argues that police power is in fact an-archic in form, in a manner that makes it impossible to hold accountable through the law. Lamb adopts an interdisciplinary approach that turns to philosophy to make sense of global events that see police power at their centre. This includes the history of police brutality in the US, the structural injustices made more apparent by COVID-19 and the growing calls to abolish the police.

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231

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350204064

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Policing the Pandemic

How Public Health Becomes Public Order

By: Fatsis, Lambros,Lamb, Melayna

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Policing the Pandemic

How Public Health Becomes Public Order

By: Fatsis, Lambros,Lamb, Melayna

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of the state’s response to public health and public order issues through deeply flawed legislation. Written in the context of the #Blacklivesmatter protests, this book explores why law enforcement responses to a public health emergency are prioritised over welfare provision and what this tells us about the state’s criminal justice institutions. Informing scholarly, civic and activist thinking on the political nature of policing, it reveals how increasing police powers disproportionately affects Black people and suggests alternative ways of designing public safety beyond a law enforcement context.

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160

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Policy Press

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1447361091

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Policing the Pandemic

How Public Health Becomes Public Order

By: Fatsis, Lambros,Lamb, Melayna

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Policing the Pandemic

How Public Health Becomes Public Order

By: Fatsis, Lambros,Lamb, Melayna

Written in the context of the #BlackLivesMatter protests, this book explores why law enforcement responses to a public health emergency are prioritised over welfare provision and what this tells us about the state’s criminal justice institutions.

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148

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Policy Press

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1447361075

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9781447361077

Lamb's Got to Do What Lamb's Got to Do

By: John Lamb

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Lamb's Got to Do What Lamb's Got to Do

By: John Lamb

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Xlibris Corporation

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146282739X

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9781462827398

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A Philosophical History of Police Power

A Philosophical History of Police Power

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