Raising questions of law and order

David Weisburd; Craig Uchida; Lorraine Green

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Raising questions of law and order

David Weisburd, Craig Uchida, Lorraine Green

Institute of Criminology

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In the 1960s Jerome Skolnick described the main problem of police in democratic society as one of effectively maintaining order while adhering to legal norms that emphasize constraint on the initiative of police authority. Contrary to what was and continues to be a common theme in American images of justice, that law and order are complementary, Skolnick argued that one necessarily is in conflict with the other. To emphasize the rule of law was to place the rights of citizens to be free from undue interference of public officials above society’s right to maintain order. To emphasize order was to place society’s need to be free from crime problems above the rights of individual citizens.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Police innovation and control of the police
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	3-9
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781461383147, 9781461383123
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8312-3_1
State	Published - 1993

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