"This is an important book because it casts contemporary and historical understandings of police, the police power(s) of states, and the meaning of the verb 'to police' into a new light. It brings together...a stunning breadth of intellectual achievement."—Law and Politics Book Review "This innovative collection of essays rescues the concept of police from its limited application with criminology and police studies, and insists on its importance to the social analysis of law, regulation, and government. The result is a significant and provocative social analysis of police power, broadly understood."—Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology, Director of the Oxford Centre for Criminology, and Fellow of All Souls College "This terrific book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines who share a sense that police forces and the legal doctrine of the state's police power have a greater connection than is usually believed—that the common vocabulary reflects common roots in a particular worldview, which is profoundly antiliberal and antilegalistic."—David Alan Sklansky, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley