There are many histories of the police as a law-enforcement
institution, but no genealogy of the police as a form of power.
This book provides a genealogy of modern police by tracing the
evolution of "police science" and of police institutions in Europe,
from the ancien regime to the early 19th century. Drawing on the
theoretical path outlined by Michel Foucault at the crossroads
between historical sociology, critical legal theory and critical
criminology, it shows how the development of police power was an
integral part of the birth of the modern state's governmental
rationalities and how police institutions were conceived as
political technologies for the government and social disciplining
of populations. Understanding the modern police not as an
institution at the service of the judiciary and the law, but as a
complex political technology for governing the economic and social
processes typical of modern capitalist societies, this book shows
how the police have played an active role in actually shaping
order, rather than merely preserving it.
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