Political Science Law Enforcement
Police Powers in Canada
The Evolution and Practice of Authority
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 1994
- Category
- Law Enforcement
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802028631
- Publish Date
- Aug 1994
- List Price
- $84.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802073624
- Publish Date
- Aug 1994
- List Price
- $50.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442678583
- Publish Date
- Sep 1994
- List Price
- $84.00
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Description
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 several years. In Canada, confidence in the police is at an all-time low. At the same time crime rates continue to rise. Canada now has the dubious distinction of having the second highest crime rate in the Western world.
How did this state of affairs come about? What do we want from our police? How do we achieve policing that is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The essays in this volume set out to explore these questions. In their introduction, the editors point out that constitutional order is tied to the exercise of power by law enforcement agencies, and that if relations between the police and civil society continue to erode, the exercise of force will rise - a dangerous prospect for democratic societies.
About the authors
R.C. MACLEOD is a member of the Department of History at the University of Alberta.
DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN is the Executive Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta. He is the editor of six books and the author of many journal and newspaper articles.