Police in Urban America, 1860-1920

by Eric H. Monkkonen

Book Overview

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the social history of crime an-long a variety of disciplines. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052153125X
• ISBN13: 9780521531252
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"