To Protect and to Serve : A History of Police in America

To Protect and to Serve : A History of Police in America

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780131120648
  • DDC分類 363.20973

Full Description


For undergraduate/graduate courses in Policing, Introduction to Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, and American Social History. This readable text provides students with a comprehensive and detailed survey of the development of police organization, theory, and practice-and its role in American history. It examines how police have tried to maintain law and order in a democratic society, noting successes, failures, and continuing problems since the colonial period.

Contents

1. Police in Early America. 2. The Development of Municipal Policing in the Northeast. 3. Policing Race and Violence in the South. 4. Policing the American West. 5. Urbanization, Progressivism, and Police. 6. The Shift to Police as Profession. 7. Police and Technology. 8. Leaders in American Policing. 9. Policing to the Twenty-First Century. Notes. Bibliography. List of Illustrations.