The Prohibition Era and Policing: A Legacy of Misregulation

by Wesley M Oliver

Legal precedents created during Prohibition have lingered, leaving search-and-seizure law much better defined than limits on police use of force, interrogation practices, or eyewitness identification protocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus guarded against more thoroughly than an unnecessary shooting or a wrongful conviction.

Intrusive searches for alcohol during Prohibition destroyed middle-class Americans' faith in police and ushered in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826521886
• ISBN13: 9780826521880
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"