| Author/Contributor(s): | Dubber, Markus Dirk |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Date: | 09/07/2005 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens. Dubber explores the roots of the power to police--the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers--by focusing on its most obvious and problematic manifestation: criminal law.