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Police powers in Canada : the evolution and practice of authority /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
Published in association with the Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta, by University of Toronto Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 dubious distinction of having the second highest crime rate in the Western world. How did this state of affairs come about? What do we want from our police? How do we achieve policing that is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The essays in this volume set out to explore these questions. In their introduction, the editors point out that constitutional order is tied to the exercise of power by law enforcement agencies, and that if relations between the police and civil society continue to erode, the exercise of force will rise - a dangerous prospect for democratic societies. |
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| Notas: | Papers presented at a conference held in Edmonton, Oct. 18-19, 1991. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442678583 1442678585 1282011731 9781282011731 9780802073624 080207362X |