ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how states via the police, the courts, and other institutions deal with public order and disorder. The idea is not to provide a catalogue of all the public measures that can be taken to maintain order and to check public disorder, but to give some examples of the range of tools that states and judges have at their disposal at any given time to do so. In democracies, emergency laws, executive orders, reinforcement of coercive powers, accelerated judicial processes, the creation and/or coordination of enforcement services, freedom restrictions, and investigative commissions all fill such a purpose.
