Civil society in Ancient Greece
- Highlight Loc. 209-12 | Added on Monday, March 05, 2012, 02:01 PM
Most of the major tasks of policing -- investigation, apprehension, prosecution, and even in some cases enforcement of court decisions -- fell tot he citizens themselves. For private initiative and self-help were the rule. ... Here punitive enforcement is not the result of coercion by a central authority but of autonomous self-regulation on the part of the community. ... For many of the functions that the modern state now entrusts to bureaucracy, police, or judiciary were embedded in a variety of social institutions .... (Hunter (1994), pp. 3-5.)
