Advances a broad interdisciplinary and international project to refocus attention on the scope and function of modern government through the lens of police power.

Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law and Director, Buffalo Criminal Law Center at SUNY Buffalo School of Law. Mariana Valverde is Professor at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. They are the editors of The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (Stanford, 2006).