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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...
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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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Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Contributions""; ""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""