Police Power. Interest of Public Health. Constitutionality of Eugenic Marriage Laws

1914 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 112
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Marriage Laws

scholarly journals Policing the Pandemic: Tracking the Policing of Covid-19 across Canada

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Luscombe ◽  
Alexander McClelland
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Police Power

The Policing the Pandemic Mapping Project was launchedon 4 April, 2020 to track and visualize these massive andextraordinary expansions of police power and the unequalpatterns of enforcement they are likely to produce. In doingso, we hope that we can bring to light patterns of policeintervention, to help understand who is being targeted, whatjustifications are being used by police, and how marginalizedpeople are being impacted. More broadly, we hope theproject will inform a larger conversation about the role ofpolicing in society, to scrutinize public health and policecollaboration, and to focus attention toward the harms ofcriminalization. Having an understanding of these patterns incoming weeks will help inform approaches to actively resistthe logic and practices of policing crisis and disease, ratherthan allow them to become widespread and normalized.Through the acts of identifying, reporting, and visualizingevents related to the policing of COVID-19, the projectoffers a living repository of publicly accessible data that canbe used by activists, academics, journalists, and communitymembers to analyze, discuss, and challenge the policing ofdisease. We encourage all people to use the data availablethrough this project in any way they wish.

scholarly journals Crisis in the Making: What is Wrong with Pennsylvania Public Health Law

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Bozza
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Great Degree ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Enterprise ◽  
The Government ◽  
Practical Task

There are few areas of government enterprise where the need to “get it right” is so critical as formulating and executing laws affecting the public health. When the government sets out to exercise its police power 1 to control the spread of disease, its goal is to accomplish an immensely important practical task; and its success is to a great degree  objectively determinable—the spread of disease is either curtailed or not. However, the manner in which the government’s goal is reached reflects not only its pragmatic concerns but also a society’s political, social, and legal values.

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