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Police in Urban America, 1860-1920 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)
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by Eric H. Monkkonen
Sales Rank: 470539
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Cover Type: Paperback with 236 pages
Published by: Cambridge University Press July 8, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 052153125X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521531252
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Product Description
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the social history of crime an-long a variety of disciplines. This book looks at the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets. This narrowed role hampered their ability to control crime, and, as modern social services developed and the police came increasingly to concentrate on crime control, they acquired a functional speciality at which they had never been particularly successful.
Book Description
This book looks at the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets.
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