Markus D. Dubber – The Police Power (2005)
The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government (2005) is a foundational work by German-American legal scholar Markus D. Dubber. Following the tradition of critical legal philosophy, Dubber uncovers the genealogical and ideological roots of the state monopoly on violence—particularly executive power that operates not through criminal law, but through mechanisms of social
