<i>Policia</i> beyond the police

Gutierrez, Laura and Neocleous, Mark (2023) <i>Policia</i> beyond the police. THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY, 27 (3). pp. 404-420.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13624806221135865

Abstract

<jats:p> This article develops and extends the critical theory of police power by applying it to Colombia. Scholarship on police in Colombia has been undermined by a focus on the kind of creation myth that one finds in most histories of police: that policing only properly begins in a key foundational year. In Colombia, that year is 1891. This approach overlooks or downplays the importance of the concept of policía. This is the original and far more expansive police concept through which social order in Colombia was fabricated. By paying attention to the continued importance of policía, this article drastically transforms our understanding of police power and state formation in Colombia, and extends the critical theory of police power. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Colombian National Police, critical theory of police power, police power, policia, policing, policing in Colombia
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2022 12:16
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 09:01
DOI:	10.1177/13624806221135865
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221135865
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3166612