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Police In Urban America, 1860–1920

by Eric H. Monkkonen
language: english
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, June of 2004 ‧
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This book examines 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.

Police In Urban America, 1860–1920

by Eric H. Monkkonen

Property Description
ISBN: 9780521531252
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: June of 2004
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 240
Format: Book
Collection: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Modern History
Categories: Books in English > History > History of America
EAN: 9780521531252

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