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 severa

Police enforce the law, but they must also obey it. Statutes circumscribe how law enforcement officers conduct their work. At the same time, Canadian courts hav

In The Disappearance of Criminal Law, Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar examine the rationales underpinning Supreme Court of Canada cases that address the po

Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in

This interdisciplinary and international volume provides a critical analysis of the power to police as a basic technology of modern government found in a vast a