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The role of police in American society : a documentary history

Author: Bryan Vila; Cynthia Morris
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series: Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bryan Vila; Cynthia Morris
ISBN: 0313301646 9780313301643
OCLC Number: 39733221
Description: xxxvii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Night watchmen, constables, and sheriffs: 17th and 18th Century America -- Rangers, marshals, and municipal police forces: 19th Century America -- Police reform and social and technological advances in the early Twentieth Century -- A growing emphasis on police training, professionalism, efficiency, and ethics, 1930-1959 -- Social change and conflicting expectations of the police role, 1960-1978 -- Reexamining and redefining the role of the police, 1979-1989 -- The role of the police in the 1990s -- Appendixes.
Series Title: Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues
Responsibility: edited by Bryan Vila and Cynthia Morris.

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