Brandon del Pozo (Rhode Island Brown University)

The Police and the State

Security, Social Cooperation, and the Public Good

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Produktbeschreibung

As the United States faces a crisis in policing amidst rising levels of violence, a political philosopher with over two decades of experience working as a New York City police officer and Vermont chief of police sets out a much-needed account of what policing means for our turbulent democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781009215411
• ISBN-10: 1009215418
• Artikelnr.: 64225982

Autorenporträt

Brandon del Pozo served for nearly two decades in the New York City Police Department, where he commanded two patrol precincts, and then as the chief of police of Burlington, Vermont. He researches policing, public health, and drug policy at Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The role of the police
2. The first power of the police: impartial protection and rescue
3. The second power of the police: arrest for adjudication
4. The third power of the police: brokering and enforcing social cooperation
5. Democratic priorities, relationships, and tensions: seven cases of policing
6. The bases of, and reasons for seeking, police legitimacy
7. Procedural justice in policing revisited
8. Policing with public reason
9. Policing populism, protecting pluralism
10. Primary goods, policing states in transition, and natural experiments.