Police Powers in Canada : : The Evolution and Practice of Authority /

Police Powers in Canada : : The Evolution and Practice of Authority / / ed. by R.C. Macleod, David Schneiderman.

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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 dubiou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Braiden, Christopher,
Brodeur, Jean-Paul,
Friedland, M.L.,
Griffiths, Curt Taylor,
Guth, DeLloyd J.,
Jain, Harish C.,
Macleod, R.C.,
Marquis, Greg,
Robb, James C.,
Shiner, Roger A.,
Smith, David E.,
Stenning, Philip C.,
Stuart, Don,
Viau, Louise,
HerausgeberIn:
Macleod, R.C.,
Schneiderman, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1994
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The History of Police Powers
  • 1. The Traditional Common-Law Constable, 1235–1829: From Bracton to the Fieldings to Canada
  • 2. Power from the Street: The Canadian Municipal Police
  • 3. The RCMP and the Evolution of Provincial Policing
  • Part Two: Police Powers and Citizens’ Rights
  • 4. Citizens’ Rights and Police Powers
  • 5. Policing under the Charter
  • 6. Reforming Police Powers: Who's in Charge?
  • Part Three: Police Organization and Minority Representation
  • 7. Policing Aboriginal Peoples: The Challenge of Change
  • 8. An Assessment of Strategies of Recruiting Visible-Minority Police Officers in Canada: 1985–1990
  • Part Four: Police and Politics
  • 9. The Police and Politics: The Politics of Independence
  • 10. The Police and Political Science in Canada
  • 11. Police and Politics: There and Back and There Again?
  • Part Five: Two Case Studies: Montreal and Edmonton
  • 12. Police Accountability in Crisis Situations
  • 13. Policing: From the Belly of the Whale

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