- The Oxford Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
- [UNTITLED]
- List of Contributors
- A Recent History of the Police
- Policing Urban Drug Markets
- The Politics of Policing
- Police Organizations and the Iron Cage of Rationality
- Problem-Oriented Policing: Principles, Practice, and Crime Prevention
- Order Maintenance Policing
- Community Policing
- Zero Tolerance and Policing
- Policing Vulnerable Populations
- Police Authority in Liberal-Consent Democracies: A Case for Anti-Authoritarian Cops
- Police Legitimacy
- Police Coercion
- Restraint and Technology: Exploring Police Use of the Taser through the Diffusion of Innovation Framework
- Police Misconduct
- Police Race Relations
- Race, Place, and Policing the Inner-City
- Racial Profiling
- Illegal Immigration and Local Policing
- Police Administrative Records as Social Science Data
- Using Community Surveys to Study Policing
- Systematic Social Observation of the Police
- Using Experimental Designs to Study Police Interventions
- Ethnographies of Policing
- Police Legitimacy in Action: Lessons for Theory and Policy
- Private Policing in Public Spaces
- The Policing of Space: New Realities, Old Dilemmas
- Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Past, Present, and Future Prospects
- Local Police and the “War” on Terrorism
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
In this essay, the grounding of police authority in consent is revisited in a call for anti-authoritarian policing. A longstanding tenet of the legitimate exercise of authority is its foundation in democratic processes and institutions. Yet, it is often assumed that police discretion will support powerful interests even when these offend democratic necessity. Police are urged not to abandon classical liberal doctrine to maintain an order of widening disparities, but to call upon their discretion to support their own longstanding institutional interest in plural governance.
Keywords: anti-authoritarian policing, liberal-consent policing, plural authority, police discretion
William de Lint is a Professor of Law at Flinders University.
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- The Oxford Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
- [UNTITLED]
- List of Contributors
- A Recent History of the Police
- Policing Urban Drug Markets
- The Politics of Policing
- Police Organizations and the Iron Cage of Rationality
- Problem-Oriented Policing: Principles, Practice, and Crime Prevention
- Order Maintenance Policing
- Community Policing
- Zero Tolerance and Policing
- Policing Vulnerable Populations
- Police Authority in Liberal-Consent Democracies: A Case for Anti-Authoritarian Cops
- Police Legitimacy
- Police Coercion
- Restraint and Technology: Exploring Police Use of the Taser through the Diffusion of Innovation Framework
- Police Misconduct
- Police Race Relations
- Race, Place, and Policing the Inner-City
- Racial Profiling
- Illegal Immigration and Local Policing
- Police Administrative Records as Social Science Data
- Using Community Surveys to Study Policing
- Systematic Social Observation of the Police
- Using Experimental Designs to Study Police Interventions
- Ethnographies of Policing
- Police Legitimacy in Action: Lessons for Theory and Policy
- Private Policing in Public Spaces
- The Policing of Space: New Realities, Old Dilemmas
- Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Past, Present, and Future Prospects
- Local Police and the “War” on Terrorism
- Index
