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Political Science Law Enforcement

Police Powers in Canada

The Evolution and Practice of Authority

edited by R.C. Macleod & David Schneiderman

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Aug 1994
Category
Law Enforcement
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802028631
    Publish Date
    Aug 1994
    List Price
    $84.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802073624
    Publish Date
    Aug 1994
    List Price
    $40.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442678583
    Publish Date
    Sep 1994
    List Price
    $84.00

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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.

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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.

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