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The Police, State and Society: Perspectives from India and France

The Police, State and Society: Perspectives from India and France

Author(s):
  • Ajay K. Mehra
  • René Lévy
    • Author: Ajay K. Mehra
    • ISBN:9788131731451
    • Price: Rs. 995.00
    • Pages:356
    • Imprint:Pearson Education
    • Binding:Paperback
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    The Police, State and Society, is a parallel study between criminal justice systems in India and France.It covers the institutional, democratic and functional aspects of the police and law in the two countries .Its discussion of the modern aspects of policing and human rights issues in the criminal justice system against a backdrop of violence and conflict gives it a wider scope than other books in the same genre.

    This in-depth analysis will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, law, criminal justice, political science policymakers and the general reader.

    Table of Content

    Preface Introduction Ajay K. Mehra I. Police and criminal Justice system
    1. The Police and the Criminal Justice System in India Kirpal Dhillon
    2. The Police and the Criminal Justice System in France: The Challenge of Modernization René Lévy
    3. The Policing Functions of the Indian State Amit Prakash
    4. Crime Victims and the Criminal Justice System: An Illustration from a French Regional Victimization Survey Renée Zauberman
    II. Policing, crime and Violence
    1. The Police and the Cities: The French Experience Sophie Body-Gendrot
    2. Transnational Crime and National Policing P. M. Nair
    III. Plurality, migration and Human rights
    1. The Police in Plural Societies: India and Sri Lanka Partha S. Ghosh
    2. The Administrative Detention of Foreigners in France: The Expanding Exclusionary Spaces Anastassia Tsoukala
    3. The Police and the People: Rights and Police Accountability in India Ujjwal Kumar Singh
    4. Police Deviance in France Fabien Jobard
    IV. Modernization and Reform
    1. Modernizing the Indian Police Satish Sahney
    2. Modernizing the French National Police Forces Christian Mouhanna
    3. The Maintenance of Public Order and the Militarization of the Police in India Kamlendra Prasad
    4. Police Reforms in India: Imperatives, Discourse and the Reality Ajay K. Mehra
    5. The Dilemma of the Permanence of a ‘Republican’ Police in a Totalitarian State: The French Experience of 1940 Jean-Marc Berlière
    6. A Comparison of the Indian and the French Police: Some Thoughts René Lév
    Bibliography The Contributors Index