
It is often suggested that the ends of policing justify the use of otherwise problematic means, but do they? This book explores the dialectic of ends and means (whether the ends justify the means or whether the ends never justify the means) and offers a new, sharpened perspective...

Policing is a highly pragmatic occupation. It is designed to achieve the important social ends of peacekeeping and public safety, and is empowered to do so using means that are ordinarily seen as problematic; that is, the use of force, deception, and invasions of privacy,...