Download or read book The Citizen and the State written by Angus Nurse and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Citizen and the State examines the conflict between criminal justice and civil liberties from a critical criminology perspective. It argues that far from being a search for truth or justice, contemporary criminal justice represents the power of the state against the individual.