Traffic and the Police: Variations in Law-Enforcement Policy

by John A. Gardiner

Although laws governing moving-traffic violations are fairly uniform throughout the United States, the effective levels of enforcement of these laws vary dramatically from city to city. Basing this study on statistics from nearly seven hundred police departments, census data, personal interviews, on-the-spot observation, and detailed case studies of four Massachusetts cities--Lynn, Waltham, Malden, and Cambridge--Mr. Gardiner identifies and discusses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674491602
• ISBN13: 9780674491601
• Release Date: February 1969
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"