Framed within a Marxist class analysis, this study locates law and order policing as a central moment of capitalist state power. He argues that, as with policin

"Framed within a Marxist class analysis that highlights the way in which state power and capitalist social relations are racialized and gendered, Gordon's study

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Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in