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The Vigilant Eye - Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11 (Paperback)
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The Vigilant Eye - Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11 (Paperback)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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In The Vigilant Eye, Greg Marquis combines the narrative and
chronological approach of traditional institutional history with
the critical approaches of social history, legal history and
criminology. The book begins with the English and Irish roots of
nineteenth-century British North American policing and traces the
development of the three models of law enforcement that would shape
the future: the local rural constable, the municipal police
department and the paramilitary territorial constabulary. Marquis
examines the development of provincial police services, whose
expansion coincided with the rise of mass automobile ownership and
controversies over alcohol prohibition and control, and their
eventual absorption into the RCMP. In terms of political policing,
the vigilant eye has monitored, harassed and disrupted various
social and political movements ranging from Fenians to communists,
to Quebec separatists and environmentalists. Marquis argues that
the style of community policing in vogue during the 1970s and 1980s
lacked confidence and had a limited impact. Canada s simplistic
crime-fighting model undermines genuine reform, including curbs on
the use of deadly force on citizens, and justifies the increased
militarization of policing. Marquis argues that it is time for
citizens to turn their vigilant eye towards police and policing in
their own communities."
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