The Scientification of Police Work

It is now accepted wisdom among scholars of law and society that the law derives its strength by providing for two discourses. There is the discourse of the public culture: its normative sentiments about the rule of law provides a legitimating symbolic canopy for the work of police and other legal agents. There is also the discourse of the operational reality of social control on behalf of the state: the law allows police and other legal agents to take the actions they deem necessary, and yet be able to construe them and account for them in terms which make them publicly acceptable.

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