Windows into Silos and Skybridges in between - Efforts towards a European Police Science

Abstract

Police science, as outlined here, is undoubtedly in the European tradition of the Enlightenment, which, as Immanuel Kant explains in his treatise “What is Enlightment?” (1784/1996), is based on the proper use of private and public reason. As discussed at the beginning, instrumental and reflective parts of reason ideally enter into a symbiosis in the interest of the advancement of knowledge and the common good.