Intelligent control : developments in public order policing in Canada / Willem de Lint and Alan Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Lint, Willem, 1959-

Contributor:

Hall, A. S. (Alan Stirling), 1931-1986.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--Canada.

Police.

Canada.

Physical Description:

viii, 365 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]

Summary:

According to liberalized rule of law, too much discretion, particularly of authorities, is also constructed as problematic. The tightening of police legal and political accountabilities in the new public management was part of the effort to maintain liberal democracies as capable of absorbing a great deal of conflict and dissent without recourse to liberalism's antithesis: authoritarianism. With increased emphasis on the rule of law and the designation of police as entrusted with coercive powers in enforcing the law and protecting rights, police began to see coercion as craft, to be used with restraint and professional care ... In the context of long-standing liberal democracies, police increasingly developed both public relations skills and a wide variety of intelligence and paramilitary special units and personnel that may be brought into or taken out of the public eye as desired. In its ideal hybrid form, consent and coercion are brought together through highly sophisticated information-gathering and assessment technologies and techniques, allowing police to manage the dilemmas of liberal controls by measuring and selecting responses based on threat and risk assessments. The result is that the appearance, at least, of liberal democratic governance is more or less maintained.

Contents:

1 Policing Labour/Policing Protest 3

2 Interpreting Public Order Policing 19

3 Liberalism and Labour/Police Development 53

4 The Emergence of Labour Liaison: The Crisis in Fordism and Welfare Liberalism? 92

5 The Refinement of Labour Liaison and the Seeds of Decline 148

6 Liaison in an Institutional Context 195

7 A Season of Discontent 221

8 Intelligent Control 264

9 Conclusion 282.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802038463

0802038468

OCLC:

294640015