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Reproducing Order

A Study of Police Patrol Work

By: Richard V. Ericson,University of Toronto. Centre of Criminology

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Reproducing Order

A Study of Police Patrol Work

By: Richard V. Ericson,University of Toronto. Centre of Criminology

Professor Ericson and his colleagues followed the work of patrol officers in a large Canadian regional police force. From their direct observations comes a wealth of information, quantitatively assembled and qualitatively discussed, with insights into the nature of policing. This book reveals that the police are not mere 'referees' of our legal lives, blowing the whistle on our infractions. They are censors of certain types of possibly wrong actions. They are selective in their invocation of criminal law and use the law artfully to restore settings to orderliness. Ericson emphasizes the routine manner in which the patrol officer intervenes and gains compliance fron the citizenry. He demonstrates that when the criminal process is invoked, the police maintain fundamental control over the court outcome. Using these findings, he addresses basic questions about the role of police in relation to crime and how it is produced, literally, by the patrol officer. Crime is also seen as the primary basis of police legitimacy, which in turn enables the police to engage in broad surveillance and information-gathering. The author's conclusions about the nature of policing and his discussion of the implications of proposals for reform of police, will generate better-informed deliberation in political and public decision-making and in the general study of sociological theory.

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0802064752

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The Security of Freedom

Essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill

By: University of Toronto. Faculty of Law

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The Security of Freedom

Essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill

By: University of Toronto. Faculty of Law

Papers from a conference, The Security of Freedom, held at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto on Nov. 9-10, 2001.

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520

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University of Toronto Press

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0802085199

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9780802085191

Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior (The Master Work Series)

By: John Monahan, Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry, University of Virginia

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Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior (The Master Work Series)

By: John Monahan, Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry, University of Virginia

As therapists are increasingly held legally responsible for failing to predict their client''s violent behaviour, the pressure to know and forecast behaviour - never the chosen domain of clinicians - has risen. Worries about potential law suits invade the therapeutic setting. The volume enables therapists to master the proven signs of potentially harmful acts, so that they can get back to the work they were trained for: helping people.

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151

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Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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1461627834

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9781461627838

Police Powers in Canada

The Evolution and Practice of Authority

By: University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

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Police Powers in Canada

The Evolution and Practice of Authority

By: University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

The television spectacles of Oka and the Rodney King affair served to focus public disaffection with the police, a disaffection that has been growing for several years. In Canada, confidence in the police is at an all-time low. At the same time crime rates continue to rise. Canada now has the dubious distinction of having the second highest crime rate in the Western world. How did this state of affairs come about? What do we want from our police? How do we achieve policing that is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The essays in this volume set out to explore these questions. In their introduction, the editors point out that constitutional order is tied to the exercise of power by law enforcement agencies, and that if relations between the police and civil society continue to erode, the exercise of force will rise - a dangerous prospect for democratic societies.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802028632

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9780802028631

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

By: Richard Connors,John M. Law,University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

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Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

By: Richard Connors,John M. Law,University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

Forging Alberta’s Constitutional Framework analyzes the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson’s Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. The formation of Alberta’s constitution and legal institutions was by no means a simple process by which English and Canadian law was imposed upon a receptive and passive population. Challenges to authority, latent lawlessness, interaction between indigenous and settler societies, periods (pre- and post-1905) of jurisdictional confusion, and demands for individual, group, and provincial rights and recognitions are as much part of Alberta’s legal history as the heroic and mythic images of an emergent and orderly Canadian west patrolled from the outset by red coated mounted police and peopled by peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the Crown. Papers focus on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west in the nineteenth century; the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930; the National Energy Program of the 1980s; Federal-Provincial relations; and the role and responsibilities of the offices of Justices of the Peace and of the Lieutenant-Governor; and the legacies of the Lougheed and Klein governments.

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Reproducing Order

Reproducing Order

The Security of Freedom

The Security of Freedom

Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior (The Master Work Series)

Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior (The Master Work Series)

Police Powers in Canada

Police Powers in Canada

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

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