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Police and the Military Nexus

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Constabularization; Militarization

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The police and military (armed forces), the two coercive agencies of the state, are restricted by law, tradition, and policy to two domains in which they exercise authority. The police protect the domestic order against risk, threats, and crimes by persuasive communications, the enforcement of laws, and, ultimately, force (or its potential use), while the military defends the nation and the state against aggression from without. These analytical and policy distinctions between two agencies (or systems of agencies) which are authorized to employ legitimate internal and external use of force to deal with threats have become blurred in practice (Easton et al. 2010). The argument and worry that the police in the USA and other democratic countries are increasingly becoming militarized, hence will loose the civil and democratic orientation to their work, the use of force, and the collections of intelligence, has been raised by a number of...

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  1. Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    Otwin Marenin

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  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Marenin, O. (2014). Police and the Military Nexus. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_377

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