Summary
“It is through the aspects of juridical and disciplinary power that this paper will consider the state of policing in Canada. Tested in this paper is the notion that juridical power is legitimized by the population as necessary for the control of the enemies of the state, that is: the “un” or non-normal who threaten the normalized citizen. In the context of the examples raised in this paper we will recognize disciplinary power at work in the society of police, and the discourses of approval for juridical power that, in effect, make the discourse of juridical power an element of disciplinary power within the closeted societies of police. Also tested by this paper is the notion of a point at which disciplinary power may break down when the weight of evidence suggests that juridical power is acting without constraint, rational or “discipline” and makes targets of the normal, ornormalized, citizen as a result of sovereignty’s shift or relocation.”—Page 8.