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The Police : Means, Ends and the Rule of Law. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 364
This work about policing institutions uses the works
of Marx, Engels and Gramsci. The work argues that
achieving a new common sense and a new social order
requires the development of a counter hegemony.
This requires a consciousness that develops
organically from within the working class.
In this process ‘progressive’intellectuals,
journalists and politicians act as ‘subalterns’of
the state by creating a ‘moral panic’ regarding
corruption within policing institutions.
Subsequently the wider spread of corruption
within criminal justice systems is ignored.
Operational police are presented as class enemies
and denied membership of their class. Critics
argue the discretionary edge of the 'Rule of Law'
should be applied to the policed. Yet the
enforcement aspects should govern any policing of
the police. Subsequently the deep seated structural
and alienating factors that cause resistance,
misconduct and corruption amongst rank and file
police are ignored. Whilst accountability is reduced
to neo-liberal reform concepts of agency, choice and
individual responsibility.
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