Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law and Director, Buffalo Criminal Law Center at SUNY Buffalo School of Law. Mariana Valverde is Professor at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. They are the editors of The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (Stanford, 2006).

• Contents Contributors000 Preface000 Introduction Policing the Rechtsstaat000 Markus D. Dubber and Mariana Valverde 1.Police, Sovereignty, and Law: Foucaultian Reflections000 Mariana Valverde 2.The Supreme Sovereignty of the State: A Genealogy of Police in American Constitutional Law, from the Founding Era to Lochner000 Christopher Tomlins 3.Police Power and the Hidden Transformation of the American State000 William J. Novak 4.Limited Liberty, Durable Patriarchy000 Mark E. Kann 5.Criminal Police in the Rechtsstaat000 Markus D. Dubber 6.Work and Authority in Policing000 David Alan Sklansky 7.The Elusive Line between Prevention and Detection of Crime in German Undercover Policing000 Jacqueline E. Ross 8.Vulnerability, Sovereignty, and Police Power in the ASBO000 Peter Ramsay 9.Loitering in the City That Works: On Circulation, Activity, and Police in Governing Urban Space000 Ron Levi Notes000 Index000

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