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A Critical Theory of Police Power
- Author
- Mark Neocleous
- Narrator
- Liam Gerrard
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 12 January 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 labor. 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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- Author
- Mark Neocleous
- Narrator
- Liam Gerrard
- Duration
- 8 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 January 2021
- ISBN
- 9781705272329
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Politics and government, Political science and theory, Police and security services
Synopsis
Putting police power into the center of the picture of capitalismThe 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 labor. 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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