Policing Beyond Coercion: A New Idea for a Twenty-first Century Mandate, First EditionRobert Kanes Policing Beyond Coercion proposes a fresh paradigm for conceptualizing the police. In Policing Beyond Coercion, Robert Kane introduces a powerful narrative that encourages policing to move beyond its traditional paradigm with its emphasis on coercion and control. Kane opens by offering a definition of police based largely on the seminal writings of Egon Bitner and Carl Klockars and then applies that definition to the police role, arguing