This thesis articulates a conceptual understanding of police power in North America,
identifying how this power manifests itself on the street, in hopes of illuminating the
power dynamic that enables instances of misconduct to occur. The works of Michel
Foucault, Frantz Fanon, and Louis Althusser are deployed as the theoretical frameworks
through which police power is analyzed. The Foucauldian perspective presents police
power as a function of juridico-scientific disciplinary forces in society. This analysis is
supplemented with an examination of police power as a post-colonial phenomenon,
drawing on Fanon's work as a framework through which discriminatory police practices
are examined. Finally, police power is examined within the context of capitalist
production, and the repressive and ideological state apparatuses, as theorized by
Althusser, to identify the class dimension that influences policing in North America. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/15411 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | de Soete, Francois |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 3658899 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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