Police in Urban America, 1860-1920

Police in Urban America, 1860-1920
ISBN-10
052153125X
ISBN-13
9780521531252
Category
History
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2004-06-07
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Eric H. Monkkonen

Description

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.

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